"I must not care for you;" then, with a sigh, and faintly: "nor must you for me."
"Would it make you very happy if I forgot you—if I loved someone else?"
She did not give him any reply.
"You don't answer," he said.
"You'll forget me soon enough, Uros—far from the eyes, far from the heart."
"And if I come back loving you more than ever?"
"You'll be away for a long time; when you come back——"
"Well?"
"Perhaps I'll be dead."
"Don't say such things, Milena, or you'll drive me mad."