Therefore the greater the love--and it is more great than all those pyramids massed to one--the greater the need that it should be buried for a while.

Do you understand ?" He shook his head.
"I understand only that you are a very strange woman, different from any other that I have known." "My child, who was slain with the rest, was all the world to me, and I would be where he is.

Do you understand now ?" "You would leave your life, in which, being young, you may have more children, to lie in a tomb with your dead son ?" he asked slowly, like one astonished.
"I only care for life while it can serve him whom I love, and if a day comes when he sits upon the throne how will a daughter of the hated Israelites serve him then?
Also I do not wish for more children.

Living or dead, he that is gone owns all my heart; there is no room in it for others.

That love at least is pure and perfect, and having been embalmed by death, can never change.