Yes, they shall talk together across the wide spaces of the earth, and the lover shall hear her lover's voice although great seas roll between them.

Nor perchance will it stop at this; perchance in future time men shall hold converse with the denizens of the stars, and even with the dead who have passed into silence and the darkness.

Do you hear and understand me ?" "Yes, yes," I answered feebly.
"You lie, as you are too prone to do.

You hear but you do not understand nor believe, and oh! you vex me sorely.

Now I had it in my mind to tell you the secret of this long life of mine; long, mark you, but not endless, for doubtless I must die and change and return again, like others, and even to show you how it may be won.