We could not abandon these two; could not go as long as there was the faintest hope of finding them--and yet for love of each other how could we remain?
I loved my wife,--how much I never knew until that day; and she loved me as deeply.
"'It takes only one each night,' she pleaded.

'Beloved, let it take me.' "I wept, Walter.

We both wept.
"'We will meet it together,' she said.

And it was thus at last that we arranged it." "That took great courage indeed, Throckmartin," I interrupted.

He looked at me eagerly.
"You do believe then ?" he exclaimed.
"I believe," I said.