Thank you for it." "Not upon the forehead," she repeated after him, colouring a little.
"You see I have faith and take a great deal for granted.

If I should be mistaken----" "Oh! don't trouble about that," he broke in, "because you know it couldn't be.

Ten years, or ten thousand, and it would make no difference." "I wonder," she mused, "oh! how I wonder.

Do you think it possible that we shall be living ten thousand years hence ?" "Quite," he answered with cheerful assurance, "much more possible than that I should be living to-day.

What's ten thousand years?
It's quite a hundred thousand since I saw you." "Don't laugh at me," she exclaimed.
"Why not, dear, when there's nothing in the whole world at which I wouldn't laugh at just now?
although I would rather look at you.