And how they two had thought the self-same thing:

She knew each inner chamber in his heart,

And what key could unlock it; and she named

First one and then another of our friends,

Whom she could never love as him she loved.

Then sigh’d she: “Ah, Pauline, had you explored

The world about, with all its barren wastes,

And found one little nook; and had you work’d

And till’d it well, and form’d a garden there;

And had you watch’d the plantlets grow until