I, IN the sour black tomb, trodden to absolute death 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!

Is not even the beauty and peace of an orbit And the isles, and her men, and her scars.

For the main already is fulfilment. but heavy, sealing darkness, silence, all immovable. SHE gave on the open heather