What is past is fixed.

Nothing can change it.

The record is in marble, to be seen in all future time." The serious character of the interview soon changed, and the young lovers forgot every thing in the joy of their reconciliation.
Nothing arose to mar their intercourse until the appointed time for the nuptial ceremonies arrived, when they were united in holy wedlock.

But, Edwin Florence did not pass on to this time without another visit from the rebuking Angel of the past.

He was not permitted to take the hand of Clara in his, and utter the words that bound him to her forever, without a visit from the one whose heart he had broken years before.