The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 20 Page 24

arms up and down his path and repeat strange poetry to me. When you are well, we will go there, won’t we?”

“Yes, dearest; but didn’t the remembrance come to you just now, when you saw the long path of light before us?”

“I think no, David. I’m afraid I forgot every one but you then, when you asked would I like to bide here with you; and the long path of light was our love — for it reaches up to heaven, doesn’t it, David?”

“It reaches to heaven, Cassandra.”

Then they were silent, for there was no more to say.