The word "they" expressed enough; it limited the mention, it had a dignity of its own, and if, in their talk, you had heard our friends use it, you might have taken them for a pair of pagans of old alluding decently to the domesticated gods.

They never knew--at least Stransom never knew--how they had learned to be sure about each other.

If it had been with each a question of what the other was there for, the certitude had come in some fine way of its own.

Any faith, after all, has the instinct of propagation, and it was as natural as it was beautiful that they should have taken pleasure on the spot in the imagination of a following.
If the following was for each but a following of one it had proved in the event sufficient.

Her debt, however, of course was much greater than his, because while she had only given him a worshipper he had given her a splendid temple.