"It was a foolish speech.

Would you have me wise now ?" "If wisdom is love--yes.

If not----" She laughed softly.
"Then folly ?" "Then folly, madness, anything--so that this last, as last it must, or I shall die!" "And why should it not last?
Is there any reason, in earth or Heaven, why we two should part?
If there is--I will make that reason itself folly, and madness, and unreason.

Dear, do not speak of this not lasting.

Die, you say?
Worse, far worse; as much as eternal death is worse than bodily dying.