Robinson Valley of the Seine Giverny painting

Yes.''
``I had nothing to fear from that letter: absolutely nothing! All I feared was to bring notoriety, scandal, on the family -- on you and May.''
``Good God,'' he groaned again, bowing his face in his hands.
The silence that followed lay on them with the weight of things final and irrevocable. It seemed to Archer to be crushing him down like his own grave-stone; in all the wide future he saw nothing that would ever lift that load from his heart. He did not move from his place, or raise his head from his hands; his hidden eyeballs went on staring into utter darkness.
``At least I loved you -- '' he brought out.
On the other side of the hearth, from the sofa-corner where he supposed that she still crouched, he heard a
-169-faint stifled crying like a child's. He started up and came to her side.
``Ellen! What madness! Why are you crying? Nothing's done that can't be undone. I'm still free, and you're going to be.'' He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shrivelling up like ghosts at sunrise. The one thing that astonished him now was that he should have stood for five minutes arguing with her across the width of the room, when just touching her made everything so simple.