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She spoke and her voice—that last he had heard aswoon—had the high, cold note he thrilled to hear.

She had no smile: still seemed aswoon, still scarcely breathed, as some bewildered dove—captured, past fluttering—which only quivers in the hands that hold it.

He was not far in person from that spot—realising her in spirit he was aswoon again in that vision's ecstasy; and suddenly knew what reason urged his burning mood, and suddenly discovered why he burned to do.

He understood that she was nearly aswoon because he had suffered once.

Aswoon, a-swōōn′, adv. in a swoon.