This contradictory woman would argue against the possibility of any future existence, yet she was quite certain that her love for Godfrey _had_ a future existence, and indeed one that was endless.

When at length he put it to her that her attitude was most illogical, since that which was dead and dissolved could not exist in any place or shape, she thought for a while and replied quietly: "Then I must be wrong." "Wrong in what ?" asked Godfrey.
"In supposing that we do not live after death.

The continuance of our love I _know_ to be beyond any doubt, and if it involves our continuance as individual entities--well, then we continue, that is all." "We might continue as a single entity," he suggested.
"Perhaps," she answered, "and if so this would be better still, for it must be impossible to lose one another while that remained alive, comprising both." Thus, and in these few words, although she never became altogether orthodox, or took quite the same view of such mysteries as did Godfrey, Isobel made her great recantation, for which probably there would never have been any need had she been born in different surroundings and found some other spiritual guide in youth than Mr.Knight.As the cruelties and the narrow bitterness of the world had bred unfaith in her, so did supreme love breed faith, if of an unusual sort, since she learned that without the faith her love must die, and the love she knew to be immortal.

Therefore the existence of that living love presupposed all the rest, and convinced her, which in one of her obstinate nature nothing else could possibly have done, no, not if she had seen a miracle.

Also this love of hers was so profound and beautiful that she felt its true origin and ultimate home must be elsewhere than on the earth.
That was why she consented to be married in church, somewhat to Godfrey's surprise.
In due course, having practically recovered his health, Godfrey appeared before a Board in London which passed him as fit for service, but gave him a month's leave.