What does it matter so long as we are
together
now?
Kipling - Poems
I dare say he's seen a good many sensible people at Mahasu.
They say that those birds live for ever so long.
Mrs. G. How long?
Capt. G. A hundred and twenty years.
Mrs. G. A hundred and twenty years! O-oh! And in a hundred and twenty
years where will these two sensible people be?
Capt. G.
What does it matter so long as we are
together
now?
Mrs. G. (Looking round the horizon.) Yes. Only you and I--I and you--in
the whole wide, wide world until the end. (Sees the line of the Snows.)
How big and quiet the hills look! D'you think they care for us?
Capt. G. 'Can't say I've consulted 'em particularly. I care, and that's
enough for me.
