human
Under the lash of some invisible whip, the mind leaps this way or that without waiting for the approval of Reason. Certainly David did not wait for it to know that all was over between him and Elizabeth. He did not reason--he only cringed back, his eyes hidden in his bent arm, and gasped out those words which, scourging his mother, arraigned himself. Nor was there any reason in Elizabeth's cry of
gpt
Oh, Mrs. Richie, I love you ; or in her run across the room to drop upon the floor beside David's mother, clasping her and pressing her face against the older woman's shaking knees.
human
I _do_ love you-- Only in Helena Richie's mind could there have been any sort of logic.
gpt
This, her ravaged and exalted face seemed to say,