But she did not speak, she simply looked at him, and he patiently waited.

Suddenly she rose to her feet, withdrawing her hands from his hold as if he had hurt her.
"Roland," she exclaimed, "you think you know all that is in my heart, but you do not.

You know it is filled with dread, with horror, with a sickening fear, but it holds more than that.

It holds a love for you which is stronger than any fear or horror or dread.

Roland, you must go down that shaft, you must know the great discovery you have made--even if you should never be able to come back to earth again, you must die knowing what it is.