"Do you remember 'Marpassa'?" she whispered.

And when he shook his head, she quoted from Stephen Phillips' masterpiece the wonderful declaration of Apollo in answer to the wish of his earth-love when she said,

... "Fain would I know

Yon heavenly wafting through the heaven wide,

And the large view of the subjected seas,

And famous cities, and the various toil of men."

..........

"And I will carry thee above the world,

To share my ecstasy of flinging beams,

And scattering without intermission joy.