"Is that all you see in our estrangement?"
"What?" he asked, abruptly.
"Estrangement," she repeated, tranquilly. "That is the real word for it.
Because the old intimacy is gone. And now we both admit it."
"We have had no opportunity to be together this—"
"We once made opportunities."
"We have had no time—"
"We halted time, hastened it, dictated to it, ruled it—once."
"Then explain it otherwise if you can."
"I am trying to—with God's help. Will you aid me, too?"
Her sudden seriousness and emotion startled him.