“I will follow you to the end of the world and beyond,” said she.

“And we will come back here again, love. We will take up the broken threads of our lives and piece them together.”

“They shall never again be broken,” she said. But he must needs spoil her divine faith. “Till death do us part,” he added.

“No, no. We will have the faith of our simple peasant folk. We are wedded for ever an’ ever.”

“Yes, forever,” he repeated.


THE END


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