"Why did you come here?" she asked.
"I don't know," he answered. "I needed quiet, I suppose, and the place has a quiet look. Why did you come?"
"It is not the first time I have been," she said. "I come here often."
"You!" he said. "Why?"
She pointed to the mound at her feet.
"Because he is here," she said, "and I have learned to care for him."
She knelt down and laid her hand upon the grass, and he remembered her emotion in the strange scene which had occurred before.
"I know him very well," she said. "I know him."
"You told me that I would not understand," he said. "It is true that I don't yet——"