“When he had gone, she went to the desk and read what he had written: ‘Eve hid herself when she heard His footsteps walking through the Garden in the cool of the morning.’ Then Kassiani knew that he had seen her hiding in the room. But she did not erase his verse or scratch it out. She let it stand. It was a sign of his great love and respect for her that he had known she was concealed there, but did not acknowledge it. There could be no greater token of their bond than silence.
