Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.

“But he was not Matthew. He was everything that Matthew was not. He was safety a…”

“Why had peace given place so soon to turmoil? To two separate solitudes? Becaus…”

“I would be consumed by you,' she said, and blinked her eyes furiously when she …”

“But really there was no hurry. It is time to love, he had said downstairs. And …”