Ah! if you only knew how I love you, how I shall always love you, whatever happens." Then she again began to weep, and even he shed tears.

Their good faith was absolute; tender of heart as they were, they sought to delay the painful wrenching and tried to hope for further happiness.

But they were conscious that the marriage was virtually an accomplished fact.

Only tears and words were left them, while life and destiny were marching on.
And if their emotion was so acute it was probably because they felt that this was the last time they would meet as lovers.

Still they strove to retain the illusion that they were not exchanging their last farewell, that their lips would some day meet again in a kiss of rapture.
Eve removed her arms from the young man's neck, and they both gazed round the room, at the sofa, the table, the four chairs, and the little hissing gas-stove.