15/18 It seemed to him that he regarded the clay-cold corpse of his life. "When we are little it seems so little! If you suffer, I am sorry." "Present suffering may be faced if there's light behind." "There's not this light, Glenfernie.... O world! if there is some other light--" "And time will do naught for me, Elspeth ?" "No. It is over! And the day goes down and the world spins on." They stood apart, without speaking, under their hands the heaped stones of the wall. |