When everything else falls away the love will endure because it cannot die while there is any life, if it is true love, for it is immortal.

Only it must be true--you see it must be true." He had penetrated her reserve now; the ice of her manner broke up beneath the warmth of her words, and her face, usually impassive, had caught life and light from the eyes above, and acquired a certain beauty of its own.

John looked at it, and understood something of the untaught and ill-regulated intensity and depth of the nature of this curious girl.

He met her eyes and they moved him strangely, though he was not an emotional man, and was too old to experience spasmodic thrills at the chance glances of a pretty woman.

He moved towards her, looking at her curiously.
"It would be worth living to be loved like that," he said, more to himself than to her.
Jess did not answer, but she let her eyes rest on his.