But that's no reason why we should be depressed also." "No, Barbara, for at any rate we have got each other." "Yes," she answered, springing up, "we have got each other, dear, until Death do us part, and somehow I don't think he'll do that yet awhile; it comes into my heart that he won't do that, Alan, that you and I are going to live out our days.

So what does the rest matter?
In two years I shall be a free woman.

In fact, if the worst comes to the worst, I'll defy them all," and she set her little mouth like a rock, "and marry you straight away, as being over age, I can do, even if it costs me every halfpenny that I've got." "No, no," he said, "it would be wrong, wrong to yourself and wrong to your descendants." "Very well, Alan, then, we will wait, or perhaps luck will come our way--why shouldn't it?
At any rate for my part I never felt so happy in my life; for, dear Alan, we have found what we were born to find, found it once and for always, and the rest is mere etceteras.

What would be the use of all the gold of the Asiki people that Jeekie was talking about last night, to either of us, if we had not each other?
We can get on without the wealth, but we couldn't get on apart, or at least I couldn't and I don't mind saying so." "No, my darling, no," he answered, turning white at the very thought, "we couldn't get on apart--now.

In fact I don't know how I have done so so long already, except that I was always hoping that a time would come when we shouldn't be apart.