"Why did I ask you to marry me?
How did it happen ?" "Did you ask me to marry you ?" she wondered.

They faded far away from each other, and neither of them could remember what had been said.
"We sat upon the ground," he recollected.
"We sat upon the ground," she confirmed him.

The recollection of sitting upon the ground, such as it was, seemed to unite them again, and they walked on in silence, their minds sometimes working with difficulty and sometimes ceasing to work, their eyes alone perceiving the things round them.

Now he would attempt again to tell her his faults, and why he loved her; and she would describe what she had felt at this time or at that time, and together they would interpret her feeling.

So beautiful was the sound of their voices that by degrees they scarcely listened to the words they framed.