So it has been with me every day.

How I have longed for the morning to come and bring you with it! but when it came and you were sitting by my side, I felt as if I had had you all the time and your hand had never left my head." "And yet a strange feeling of fear comes over me, when I think of our parting hour." "I do not fear it so very much.

I know my heart will bleed when you say farewell, but I am sure you will come back and will not have forgotten me.

Melitta wanted to enquire of the Oracle whether you would remain faithful; and to question an old woman who has just come from Phrygia and can conjure by night from drawn cords, with incense, styrax, moon-shaped cakes, and wild-briar leaves; but I would have none of this, for my heart knows better than the Pythia, the cords, or the smoke of sacrifice, that you will be true to me, and love me always." "And your heart speaks the truth." "But I have sometimes been afraid; and have blown into a poppy-leaf, and struck it, as the young girls here do.

If it broke with a loud crack I was very happy, and cried, 'Ah! he will not forget!' but if the leaf tore without a sound I felt sad.