Disturbed her? No! she has disturbed me, night and day, through eighteen years—incessantly—remorselessly—till yesternight; and yesternight I was tranquil. I dreamt I was sleeping the last sleep by that sleeper, with my heart stopped and my cheek frozen against hers.” “And if she had been dissolved into earth, or worse, what would you have dreamt of then?” I said. “Of dissolving with her, and being more happy still!” he answered.
