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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: Now he saw that her reply was open to more than a
single construction. It might, of course, mean that
she did not love Kulan Tith; and so, by inference,
be taken to mean that she loved another.
But what assurance was there that the other was Carthoris of Helium?
The more he thought upon it the more positive he
became that not only was there no assurance in her words
that she loved him, but none either in any act of hers.
No, the fact was, she did not love him. She loved another.
She had not been abducted--she had fled willingly with her lover.
With such pleasant thoughts filling him alternately with
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
