"If you think ... that is to say ... if it will make you happy, and be a strength to me also...."
"Run for your cloak and hat, dearest—in ten minutes it will be done."
"But think again." She was breathing audibly. "Who knows what may happen before you return? Will you never repent?"
"Never!"
"But ... but there is something ... something I ought to tell you—something painful. It is about the past."
"The past is past. Let us think of the future."
"You do not wish to hear it."
"If it is painful to you—no!"
"Will nothing and nobody divide us?"
"Nothing and nobody in the world."