“Once I have been to the Pass, but it was not so bad then.”
“You are tired out, Sullenbode.”
“What of it?” she replied, smiling faintly. “When one has a terrible lover, one must pay the price.”
“We cannot get there tonight, so let us stop at the first shelter we come to.”
“I leave it to you.”
He paced up and down, while the others sat. “Do you regret anything?” he demanded suddenly.
“No, Maskull, nothing. I regret nothing.”
“Your feelings are unchanged?”
“Love can’t go back—it can only go on.”
“Yes, eternally on. It is so.”