"And when _I_ want to come, when I long for you, what then?"
"_Your_ longing will make no difference."
She smiled also, as if she foresaw how it would work, and that soon, very soon, he would cease to long for her.
His hand was on the door. He smiled back at her.
"I don't want to shake your faith in it," he said.
"Still--it breaks down. It breaks down," he cried.
"Never. You don't understand," she said. "It was the flaw in the crystal."
Soon, very soon he would know it. Already he had shown submission.
She had no doubt of the working of the Power. Bella remained as a sign that it had once been, and that, given the flawless crystal, it should be again.
The following changes have been made to the original text:
Page 109: "there's" changed to "there" in "there he's been for years."
Page 110: added missing quotation mark before "Agatha, why can't we?"
Page 188: "shapless" changed to "shapeless" in "thoughts unborn and shapeless,"
Other variations in spelling and inconsistent hyphenation have been retained as they appear in the original book.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Flaw in the Crystal, by May Sinclair