Crossword-Solution: THELMA 6 letters, 71 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

She read the sprightly “Duchess” novels, where mad offers of marriage were always made in flower-scented conservatories; she read Dickens, and Thelma, and old bound Cosmopolitans, and Zola, and de Maupassant, and the “Wide, Wide World,” and “Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates,” and “Jane Eyre.” All of which are merely mentioned as examples of her catholicism in literature.

Cut deeply in the hard granite he read for the second time that odd name-- THELMA It belonged to some one dead, then--not to the lovely living woman who had so lately confronted him in the burning glow of the midnight sun? He felt dismayed at his unthinking precipitation,--he had, in his fancy, actually associated _her_, so full of radiant health and beauty, with what was probably a mouldering corpse in that hermetically sealed tenement of stone! This idea was unpleasant, and jarred upon his feelings.

Why seek to hasten my end? Away, away, I tell you! Leave me in peace! I will die when Thelma bids me; but not till then!" And he rushed down the long gallery and disappeared in the furthest chamber, where he gave vent to a sort of long, sobbing cry, which rang dolefully through the cavern and then subsided into utter silence.

And what spell was attached to that name of Thelma? The more he thought of his morning's adventure, the more puzzled he became.

The sight of the girl disappointed the eager visitors, for though she was undeniably pretty, she was not Thelma.