Or to say 'Forgive the wrong'?
Believe that you are forgiven; you can know no more than that until you have passed the river, until the gate of a happier world has been opened."
"And then I shall be with him again, where they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but where they are as the angels of God in heaven?"
"That is the reunion to which we all look forward; that is the faith that looks through death."
There was a long interval of silence, and then she said slowly:
"If I could see him with these bodily eyes, see him as I see you looking at me in the firelight, I should be sure that the dream is not a dream."
"You have been privileged to understand the mind of your dead friend; to know that he is near you. That should be enough. Only to the rarest natures is it given to see. You questioned me about this possibility of vision once before; and I told you that I had known of one instance when the eyes of the living beheld the dead, in the last moments of earthly life."
"I do not think those moments are far off for me, my friend," Vera said softly.
Francis Symeon, in whose philosophy death was emancipation, did not say the kind of thing that Susan Amphlett would have said in the circumstances. She no doubt would have told Vera that she was talking nonsense, and that she was "going to get quite, quite well, and live for years and years and years, and have a real good time."
Mr. Symeon took her attenuated hand in his friendly grasp, and sat by her for some time in silence before he bade her his calm adieu, patted the dog, nestling against her knees, and went quietly out of the room and out of the house. He did not think that he would ever again be sitting in the firelight in that room, hearing the low sad voice. He knew that he had shut the door upon a life that was measured by moments.