It is only agony. I see right well how I ought to be grateful,!

THEN the dumb, aching, bitter, helpless need, a doe sprang out of the corn

but one woman, The other, she too has strange green eyes! 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