"I read somewhere," she cut in, "that we have to suffer terribly before
we learn not to suffer at all." Pausing, she added: "I suppose then we
are dead."
She was getting away from it and he rounded on her.
"See here! We have both been in hell, but that's over. Even otherwise,
hell would not be hell to me if I were in it with you."
Thump! Thump! It was worse than ever. None the less she looked cool as a
cucumber.
"The prospect is not very tempting. Besides, even if it were----" Again
she paused, but this time without getting on with it.