" began the man.

Then he, too, went down on his knees by his wife, leaned forward and kissed the rosary, while tears blinded him.
"Yes, yes," he said.

"Leave her in peace.

I would not move it for the world: it was her toy, was it not ?" The girl stared at him, astonished.
"We can be generous, too," he said.

"We have all the world at last.