"We have lived and loved together, Through many changing years; We have shared each other"s gladness, And wept each other"s tears."
And while Kate"s face illuminated the words, Piers leaned forward, and took both her hands in his, and whispered with far tenderer, truer love than in the old days of his first wooing.
And if any thought of The Other One entered his mind at this hour, it came with a thanksgiving for a life n.o.bly redeemed by a pure, unselfish love, and a death which was at once sacrificial and sacramental.