But--but--" She stood up as if she could not remain seated.

Involuntarily I stood up with her.

She was trembling, and she caught and held me in her arms.

"He cannot stay, Ysobel," she ended.
I could scarcely hear my own voice when I echoed the words.
"He cannot--stay ?" "Oh! the time will come," she said, "when people who love each other will not be separated, when on this very earth there will be no pain, no grief, no age, no death--when all the world has learned the Law at last.

But we have not learned it yet.