Years of imprisonment, and the still heavier burden of general incredulity and mockery, have combined with the natural decay of old age to
erase from his mind many of the thoughts and notions, and much also of the terminology, which he acquired during his short stay in Spaceland.
That now, having expiated his sin against the husband, he was bound to renounce her, and never in future to stand between her with her repentance and her husband, he had firmly decided in his heart; but he could not tear out of his heart his regret at the loss of her love, he could not
erase from his memory those moments of happiness that he had so little prized at the time, and that haunted him in all their charm.