"The years of my bondage are like some half-remembered hideous nightmare, Nino," she murmured, still gazing full into his eyes. "But it is all finished, for you, my husband, true, patient, and forbearing placed in my hand a weapon against my enemies; you brought back to me a renewed desire for life and its pleasures; and you gave me deliverance from the evil that encompassed me. Truly a perfect peace is ours, for the dark Day of Temptation has waned, and has given place to a bright and blissful dawn." The End. End of Project Gutenberg's The Day of Temptation, by William Le Queux