"Save the world?" I cried. "Did the prophecy end like that?"
He leaned back against the rock, breathing deep. Through all the blue-green reflections I saw him colour. I heard him say: "Silence and loneliness cannot last for ever. It may be a hundred or a thousand years, but the sea lasts longer, and she shall come out of it and sing." I would have asked him more, but at that moment the whole cave darkened, and there rode in through its narrow entrance the returning boat.
THE ETERNAL MOMENT
I
"Do you see that mountain just behind Elizabeth's toque? A young man fell in love with me there so nicely twenty years ago. Bob your head a minute, would you, Elizabeth, kindly."
"Yes'm," said Elizabeth, falling forward on the box like an unstiffened doll. Colonel Leyland put on his pince-nez, and looked at the mountain where the young man had fallen in love.
"Was he a nice young man?" he asked, smiling, though he lowered his voice a little on account of the maid.
"I never knew. But it is a very gratifying incident to remember at my age. Thank you, Elizabeth."
"May one ask who he was?"