No Jenny! Then there could be no harm ...
"Theophil," she said, after a silence, "have you forgotten something we said to each other that day,--something we promised ?" For answer he looked at her with awed and suddenly enlightened eyes.
"Do you mean that ?" he asked.

"You mustn't mean that." "Do you think I could care any more for life ?" she asked.

"Would you ?" "No," he answered simply.
"May I, then ?" His eyes could alone answer.

He knew her love too well to affect that there would be any loss to her in the life she would thus be leaving.
"But Jenny ?" "If Jenny is there, she will understand now." I can conceive no happier, completer moment than that which followed for these two, no more unassailable peace.

If their lives were to be quite put out, they would be extinguished together; if they were to begin anew elsewhere, they would begin anew together; and meanwhile nothing that could happen could harm them, could rob them of the desire of their hearts.