She put both hands on his shoulders.
"One night I shall come--and not leave you. And after that you will not
follow me any more. I shall follow you." Perfectly master of himself, his
eyes met hers and held them.
"It shall be as you will."
She smiled confidently. "I shall come. I know that. But I shan't speak."
"What need of speech between you and me?"
She saw Chevenix upon the high ground above. He stood on the grass dykes
of Hirlebury, and waved his hat.
"I must go now," she said. "Good-bye, my dear one."
"Good-bye, Despoina. In seven hours you will be here again...."
"It is to be observed," says a gifted author, "that the laws of human
conduct are precisely made for the conduct of this world of Men in which
we live and breed and pay rent. They do not affect the Kingdom of the
Dogs, nor that of the Fishes; by a parity of reasoning they should not be
supposed to obtain in the Kingdom of Heaven, in which the Schoolmen
discovered the citizens dwelling in nine spheres, apart from the blessed
Immigrants, whose privileges did not extend so near to the Heart of the
Presence. How many realms there may be between mankind's and that ultimate
object of Pure Desire cannot at present be known, but it may be affirmed
with confidence that any denizen of any one of them, brought into relation
with human beings, would act, and lawfully act, in ways which to men would
seem harsh, unconscionable, without sanction or convenience.
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