"We are alone here, for I set guards of my own company around the place, with command to admit no one, and my order runs against all save the Empress in person." "Then we are safe, Olaf, since this damp would disarrange her hair, which, I noted, is curled with irons, not by Nature, like my own.

Oh! Olaf, Olaf, how wonderful is the fate that has brought us together.

I say that when I saw you yonder in the cathedral for the first time since I was born, I knew you again, as you knew me.

That is why, when you whispered to me, 'Greeting after the ages,' I gave you back your welcome.

I know nothing of the past.