"But that implies--death," she said, her voice very low.
"And what is Death ?" said Scott gently, as if he reasoned with a child.
"Do you think it is more than a step further into Life?
The passing of a boundary, that is all." "But there is no returning!" she protested piteously.

"It must be more than that." "My dear, there is never any returning," he said gravely.

"None of us can go backwards.

Yesterday is but a step away, but can we retrace that step?
No, not one of us." She made a sudden, almost fierce gesture.

"Oh, to go back!" she cried.
"Oh, to go back! Why should we be forced blindly forward when we only want to go back ?" "That is the universal law," said Scott.