Also I wasn't laughing, I was loving, and when one is loving very much, the truth comes out." "Then you really think it true--about the ten thousand years, I mean ?" "Of course, dear," he answered, and this time his voice was serious enough.

"Did we not tell each other yonder in the Abbey that ours was the love eternal ?" "Yes, but words cannot make eternity." "No, but thoughts and the will behind them can, for we reap what we sow." "Why do you say that ?" she asked quickly.
"I can't tell you, except because I know that it is so.

We come to strange conclusions out yonder, where only death seems to be true and all the rest a dream.

What we call the real and the unreal get mixed." A kind of wave of happiness passed through her, so obvious that it was visible to the watching Godfrey.
"If you believe it I dare say that it is so, for you always had what they call vision, had you not ?" Then without waiting for an answer, she went on, "What nonsense we are talking.

Don't you understand, Godfrey, that I am quite old ?" "Yes," he answered, "getting on; six months younger than I am, I think." "Oh! it's different with a man.