Did she mean to ask whether she was to forget the old compact, or its new annulment?
"Begin to forget where the pain begins," he said, evasively.
"That would carry us back a long way. But anyhow, I won't do it. Pain or no pain, I don't mean to forget."
"Yes, yes," he said, soothingly.
"But I don't want to."
He looked down at her perplexed.
"I don't mean to forget anything, not even the sad things. I don't want to let anything go."
"Well, well." He smoothed the wild brown hair.
"To forget is to lose a bit of your life," she said, catching at his hand. "What was it you said once? it was a first victory for that spectre Annihilation that dogs us all. I didn't believe in your Annihilation then. Not very sure I do now."
She laid his hand, for comfort, over the ache in her breast.