She laughed. She flung her arms about him and kissed him, and he returned the embrace. They babbled excitedly. They sank down on the soft grass again, weary, but unable to rest, eager, impatient, all life before them. “Hello, Gully, darling Gully. Hello Gully, after all this time.” “Hello, Jiz.” “I told you we’d meet some day…some day soon. I told you, darling. And this is the day.” “The night.” “The night, so it is. But no more murmuring in the night along the Whisper Line. No more night for us, Gully, dear.” Suddenly they became aware that they were nude, lying close, no longer separated.
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