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He looked at her for a moment, and smiled. Then the smile vanished. "I
thought it ought to come from you," he said. "I didn't like to ask for
your money. And besides--at first I thought this would be rather fine."
There was a pause.
"
It has been fine," he said; and glanced once more over his shoulder.
Until all this began."
"
"Yes," she said, "those first days. The first three days."
They looked for a space into one another's faces, and then Denton slid
down from the wall and took her hand.
"To each generation," he said, "the life of its time. I see it all
plainly now. In the city--that is the life to which we were born. To
live in any other fashion ... Coming here was a dream, and this--is the
awakening."
"
It was a pleasant dream," she said,--"in the beginning."
For a long space neither spoke.
"If we would reach the city before the shepherds come here, we must
start," said Denton. "We must get our food out of the house and eat as
we go."
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