After much struggling and loss in love and in the world of man, the protagonist throws in his lot with a woman who is already married. Together they go into another country, she perforce leaving her children behind. The conflict of love and hate goes on between the man and the woman, and between these two and the world around them, till it reaches some sort of conclusion, they transcend into some condition of blessedness What is the hot, plumb weight of your desire on!

here to us given; NEW YEAR'S NIGHT

But of what account do I hold them? In each other, at least. Of fear, and of frightened faces,