You have taught me, as ever, the truth.

Go, my darling, and I will do as you wish, and will try to make myself more worthy of your noble soul.

God keep you until we meet again." She did not speak; she only looked at him with a divine look of love and faith, and he watched her as she went down, it seemed, out of the very heart of the setting sun and into the shadows beneath, and so disappeared from his adoring eyes in a peaceful purple twilight.
Then he returned to the old stone seat and leaning forward gazed out over the exquisite scene.
A great hush had fallen upon his torn heart.

And thus he stayed motionless until the night fell..