‘This,’ she said, ‘I have always—at least, ever since I can remember—had a kind of longing for death.’ ‘Ah, Psyche,’ I said, ‘have I made you so little happy as that?’ ‘No, no, no,’ she said. ‘You don’t understand. Not that kind of longing. It was when I was happiest that I longed most. It was on happy days when we were up there on the hills, the three of us, with the wind and the sunshine . . . where you couldn’t see Glome or the palace. Do you remember? The colour and the smell, and looking across at the Grey Mountain in the distance? And because it was so beautiful, it set me longing,
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