“Now I see it better, David. As you came here and lived my life, and loved me just as I was — so to be truly one, I must go with you and live your life. I must not fail you there.”

“You have been tried as by fire and have not failed — nor are you the kind of woman who ever fails.”

Then she smiled up at him one of those rare and fleeting smiles that always touched David with poignant pleasure, and said: “I think I understand now. God meant us to feel this way, when he married us to each other.”