"It is now--and for ever." Reverently I folded her in my arms; gathered her to the heart that worshipped her utterly.

Henceforth no sorrows could hurt us, no misfortunes vex; for we should walk hand in hand on our earthly pilgrimage and find the way all too short.
Time, whose sands run out with such unequal swiftness for the just and the unjust, the happy and the wretched, lagged, no doubt, with the toilers in the room that we had left.

But for us its golden grains trickled out apace and left the glass empty before we had begun to mark their passage.

The turning of a key and the opening of a door aroused us from our dream of perfect happiness.

Ruth raised her head to listen, and our lips met for one brief moment.