And Grazia said:
"Good-bye."
Christophe said plaintively once more:
"And it is all over?"
"No doubt it is better that it should be so."
"We shall not meet again before you go."
"No," she said.
"When shall we meet again?"
She made a sad little gesture of doubt.
"Then," said Christophe, "what's the good, what's the good of our having met again?"