"Because of Mubby."
"But he doesn't love you any more?"
"I'm not so sure about that ... I'm not so sure about anything."
I never saw the world so beautiful as on that day. I was translated to the veritable garden of Eden. The community had been named rightly. I was Adam and Hildreth was my Eve.
And so it went on for two blissful weeks....
If the Voice of God had met us, going abroad beneath the trees, I would not have been surprised.
Hildreth took her volume of Blake with her on our rambles ... and we revelled in his "Songs of Experience" as well as "Songs of Innocence"; and we were moved deeply by the huge, cloudy grandeur of his prophetic books....
Why could it not go on forever thus? eternal summer, everlasting love in its first rosy flush?...
Hildreth was very wise and very patient with one who was as yet a mere acolyte in love's ways and uses ... she taught me many things, and I adored her for it—as little by little, day by day, she brought me to the full stature of my manhood....