There I felt the great-key stone coming in, and through it

Feel the other part—all the other stones of the archway,

Joined into mine with a strange happy sense of completeness. But, dear me,

This is confusion and nonsense. I mix all the things I can think of.

And you won’t understand, Mr. Philip.

But while she was speaking,

So it happened, a moment she paused from her work, and pondering,

Laid her hand on her lap: Philip took it: she did not resist:

So he retained her fingers, the knitting being stopped. But emotion

Came all over her more and yet more from his hand, from her heart, and