Tell me, Rima." Her face became troubled; she glanced away and let her eyes wander round the dim, firelit cavern; then they returned to mine once more.
"Look," she said, "grandfather lying asleep by the fire.

So far away from us--oh, so far! But if we were to go out from the cave, and on and on to the great mountains where the city of the sun is, and stood there at last in the midst of great crowds of people, all looking at us, talking to us, it would be just the same.

They would be like the trees and rocks and animals--so far! Not with us nor we with them.

But we are everywhere alone together, apart--we two.

It is love; I know it now, but I did not know it before because I had forgotten what she told me.