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Yes, that they should BOTH realise it--for he
felt certain Jane had also experienced the blank. A thing so
complete and overwhelming as the miss of her had been to him could
not be one-sided. And how well worth the experience of these lonely
days if they had thereby learned something of what TOGETHER meant,
now the words were to be spoken which should insure forever no more
such partings.
All this sped through Garth's mind as he greeted Jane with that most
commonplace of English greetings, the everlasting question which
never receives an answer. But from Garth, at that moment, it did not
sound commonplace to Jane, and she answered it quite frankly and
fully. She wanted above all things to tell him exactly how she did;
to hear all about himself, and compare notes on the happenings of
these three interminable days; and to take up their close
comradeship again, exactly where it had left off. Her hand went home
to his with that firm completeness of clasp, which always made a
hand shake with Jane such a satisfactory and really friendly thing.


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