"Please say it again." No, it was not gone.

They were still in the magic garden.
"I love you and I wish this journey could go on forever," he said.
She stepped closer and he put his arm around her and kissed her lips.
She ran away a few steps.

Then, indeed, they were back on the familiar trail in the thirty-mile bush.

A moose bird was screaming at them.
She turned and said: "I wanted you to know but I have said nothing.

I couldn't.