"You shall," I said, "do as you like in the matter.

God forgive me if I do wrong! There are terrible things yet to learn of, but if you have so far traveled on the road to poor Lucy's death, you will not be content, I know, to remain in the dark.

Nay, the end, the very end, may give you a gleam of peace.

Come, there is dinner.

We must keep one another strong for what is before us.