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`` Your love had power to save one life , you see , '' he went on in a cold , even voice , intended to strengthen him against himself . `` But look , now -- see those marks on the lid , just discernible ? Now -- listen . '' And Lilith did listen ; and at the description of the awful rock prison , with its skeleton bones , the long hours of helpless suspense and despair -- and the final struggle in the ghastly moonlight ; the struggle for life with the appalling monster that tenanted it , her eyes dilated with horror , and with pallid face and gasping lips she begged him not to go on , so great a hold did the incident take upon her imagination , even there , in the blaze of the broad midday sunlight . `` I have done now , '' he said . `` Well , Lilith -- you see what that token of your love has rescued me from . It was given as an amulet or charm , and right well has it fulfilled its purpose .