”

“I have my now. It is all we ever have. The past is gone, and lives only in our memories, and the future exists only in anticipation; but now — now is all we have or can have. Live in it and love in it and be happy.”

“But we must be wise. We’ve got to face it sometime. Let — me help you — now while I have the strength,” she pleaded earnestly.

But David only laughed out joyously, and looked at his wife until she turned her face away from him. “Look at me,” he cried. “Dear, troubled eyes. Tears? Tears in them? Love, you have kept nothing back this time, and now it is my turn, but I shall keep something back from you. I’m not going to reprove your idolatry by turning iconoclast