It's a curious, wanting thing.

“I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of h…”

“Weep all the artful tears you like. You shall never make my hard heart the soft…”

“I felt that thread that had come between us, tugging, tugging at my heart - so …”

“Your twisting is done--you have the last thread of my heart. I wonder: when the…”