'Have you forgotten the last words you said to me before I sailed for Africa ?' He spoke gently now, and Sister Giovanna turned her face from him.

'You said, "I will wait for you for ever." Do you remember ?' 'Yes.

I remember.' 'Did you "wait for ever," Angela ?' She looked at him again, and then came forward a little, drawn by an impulse she could not resist.
'Did I love another man, that you reproach me ?' she asked.

'Such as my life has been, have I lived it as a woman lives who has forgotten?
I know I have not.

Yes, Giovanni, I have waited, but as one waits who hopes to meet in heaven the dear one who is dead on earth.