It, too, is changing, is it not?
Say, has not the body of that love died, and left you its invulnerable soul?
You see, I can give you a spirit love, I have given it you this long, long time; but not embodied passion.

See, you are a nun.

I have given you what I would give a holy nun--as a mystic monk to a mystic nun.

Surely you esteem it best.

Yet you regret--no, have regretted--the other.