He will then argue back that it is we, mistaken ones, that have killed her by our ideas, and so he will be much unhappy always.

Yet he never can be sure, and that is the worst of all.

And he will sometimes think that she he loved was buried alive, and that will paint his dreams with horrors of what she must have suffered, and again, he will think that we may be right, and that his so beloved was, after all, an UnDead.

No! I told him once, and since then I learn much.

Now, since I know it is all true, a hundred thousand times more do I know that he must pass through the bitter waters to reach the sweet.