Here they sat down upon the edge of the cliff, and locked in each other's arms, watched the moon rise over the silver ocean, their young hearts filled with a joy that cannot be told.
"The sea is beautiful, is it not, husband ?" whispered Suzanne into his ear.
"To-night it is beautiful," he answered, "as our lives seem to be; yet I have seen it otherwise," and he shuddered a little.
She nodded, for she knew of what he was thinking, and did not wish to speak of it.

"Neither life nor ocean can be always calm," she said, "but oh! I love that great water, for it brought you to me." "I pray that it may never separate us," answered Ralph.
"Why do you say that, husband ?" she asked.

"Nothing can separate us now, for even if you journey far away to seek your own people, as sometimes I think you should, I shall accompany you.

Nothing can separate us except death, and death shall bind us more closely each to each for ever and for ever." "I do not know why I said it, Sweet," he answered uneasily, and just then a little cloud floated over the face of the moon, darkening the world, and a cold wind blew down the kloof, causing its trees to rustle and chilling the pair, so that they clung closer to each other for comfort.
The cloud and the wind passed away, leaving the night as beautiful as before, and they sat on for a while to watch it, listening to the music of the waterfall that splashed into the deep sea pool below, and to the soft surge of the waves as they lapped gently against the narrow beach.
At length Ralph spoke in a low voice.

"Sweet, it is time to sleep," he said, and kissed her.
"It is time," she whispered back, "but, husband, first let us kneel together here and pray to the Almighty to bless our married life and make us happy." "That is a good thought," he answered, for in those days young men who had been brought up as Christians were not ashamed to say their prayers even in the presence of others.
So they knelt down side by side upon the edge of the cliff, with their faces set towards the open sea.
"Pray for us both aloud, Ralph," said Suzanne, "for though my heart is full enough I have no words." So Ralph prayed very simply, saying: "Oh, God, Who madest us, hear us, Thy son and daughter, and bless us.