Let us pray that we may live them to each other.

I go to seek fortune as well as foes, and I will win it for your sake that we may marry.' She shook her head sadly.

'It were too much happiness, Thomas.

Men and women may seldom wed their true loves, or if they do, it is but to lose them.

At the least we love, and let us be thankful that we have learned what love can be, for having loved here, perchance at the worst we may love otherwhere when there are none to say us nay.' Then we talked on awhile, babbling broken words of love and hope and sorrow, as young folks so placed are wont to do, till at length Lily looked up with a sad sweet smile and said: 'It is time to go, sweetheart.