I am glad." In that darkness he could not see.

Yet something reached into him, thrilling him, quickening his pulse with a thing to which his eyes were blind.

He bent down.

He found her lips upturned, offering him the sweetness of the kiss which was to be his reward; and as he felt their warmth upon his own, he felt also the slightest pressure of her hands upon his arms.
"He is gone.

We will light the lamp again," she said then..