“The shadow of temporality hovered, unacknowledged, over them. Such was their delight in each other’s company, the thought that they might not always be together lay quite beyond their imagining. As lovers do, they sought to deny time’s prerogative; but deny it as you will, time moves relentlessly on, and trying to predict its unfolding is only to view, as through smoked glass, darkly, an uncertain future.”