Now his imagination spun about the hand as about the edge of a vortex; but still he made no effort to draw nearer. He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied. His one terror was to do anything which might efface the sound and impression of her words; his one thought, that he should never again feel quite alone.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

The fact that he and she understood each other without a word seemed to bring them nearer than any explanation would have done.

I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and--unnecessary.

There was such love as she had dreamed, and she meant to go on believing in it and cherishing the thought that she was worthy of it.

My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.

Make ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.