"I loved her.

That was why I took her from you, that by your grief she should live for ever.

There is no one but I who can give you back your little Wonder--no one but I who can give you back anything you have lost.

If you love me faithfully, Antony--there is nothing you can lose but in me you will find it again." Antony bowed his head, his heart breaking for Beatrice--but who is not powerless against his own soul?
"Listen," said Silencieux again.

"Once on a time there was a beautiful girl who died, and from her grave grew a wonderful flower, which all the world came to see.