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“Gaunt knew Ellwood would probably never love him again. He had accepted it long ago.”

“I think, that if he gave me the smallest hope— I should wait forever.”

“Ellwood stared out of the window, and Gaunt stared at Ellwood.”

“All Gaunt could do was be patient, and wait, and hope that the traces of tenderness Ellwood sometimes showed him were signs that he would one day love Gaunt again.

“Some long-dead poet must have written the lines with which to answer, but Ellwood no longer knew them.”

“I know you’re fine,” said Ellwood frowning. “But are you all right?”

“I’ll be nineteen in July. Older than Gaunt ever was. All my life I’ve been younger than him. Isn’t it funny?”

“Poor Elly, he thought, as he fell. It’s so much harder to be left behind.”

“It wasn’t the time for Shakespeare. How painfully typical of Ellwood not to know that.”

“Ellwood smiled, and a sudden, dry bleakness spread over Gaunt’s heart as he thought of Hercules, and Hector, and all the heroes in myth who found happiness briefly, only for it not to be the end of the story.”