Tell me what you saw when you came into the parlour just now.' 'Gertrude, dear, I ought not to have come in so suddenly.' 'Yes, 'twas but right--'twas but kind in you, Lily--right and kind--to treat me like the open-hearted and intimate friend that, Heaven knows, I was to you, Lily, all my life.

I think--at least, I think--till lately--but you were always franker than I--and truer.

You've walked in the light, Lily, and that's the way to peace.

I turned aside, and walked in mystery; and it seems to me I am treading now the valley of the shadow of death.

Waking and talking, I am, nevertheless, in the solitude and darkness of the grave.