They kissed each other so long and so warmly that their kiss was the loudest sound heard in the deep surrounding stillness.
“See, I believe in your love. I believe in the joy you give me. If you will, I also believe that our souls at this moment have come to our lips from the very depths of our being and have melted in an ecstasy of love.”
“Well, and must these poor souls die with the bodies which inclose them?”
“Ah, who knows?”
“Then you doubt your own doubts?”
“Listen, love; I am going to make a confession; but say nothing of it to any living soul, for men would laugh at me. For them supreme wisdom consists in never changing an opinion or turning again to any faith, although nature changes its course every day, and progress itself is but a negation of what has happened yesterday. Before knowing you I believed in nothing, but now the idea that we could not meet again in heaven is unsupportable, and I hope————”
“My treasure, if you hope you are halfway on the road which leads to faith.”
“And with you and for you who knows but I may gain it some day. To-day leave me halfway on the road.”
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She put her arms round his neck and kissed him anew, and with more length than before.