'What is it?'
'If God took you away from me, Cath, I could not forgive Him.'
'Yet God gave me to you. But for His will we should never have crossed one another's paths, never loved one another.'
'That truth would in no way minimise the loss we are supposing.'
'If I were to die, you would not wish that we had never loved one another?'
'No, no!'
'Then, by your own admission, God would have conferred a boon upon you, even if He had done that which, in thought, appals you.'
'The apparent cruelty of His will would not be less.'
'You are not rebellious now because we are parted for weeks together, Brian.'
'Because I am hoping for a time when we shall be always together, dearest.'