And that's why," he said, "I know where we are.

They're every one, to-day, on our side." Resting on the parapet; toward the great view, she was silent a little, and he saw the next moment that her eyes were closed.

"I go but by one thing." Her hand was on the sun-warmed stone; so that, turned as they were away from the house, he put his own upon it and covered it.

"I go by YOU," she said.

"I go by you." So they remained a moment, till he spoke again with a gesture that matched.