And only a chapter ago, Ewen had been so happy at the thought that he had one more meeting with Keith in his future! *bawls*
I'd like to add to regshoe's collection of lines that are currently tearing me up:
“My dearest on earth,” he said, but not as he had said it a year ago, for the gift he asked meant even more now,—“my dearest on earth, give me your kiss!”
When he first says "My dearest on earth" to Alison, way back in the prologue, there's a happy innocence to it and the strong implication that she is his dearest because he has no other dear to him.
But here in the epilogue... Now she is his dearest on earth -- for his other dear one no longer lives. And the gift of her kiss means more now than it did then, because he never had the gift of his other dear one's kiss. He kissed Keith, but that kiss was never -- and now never will be -- returned.
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I'd like to add to
When he first says "My dearest on earth" to Alison, way back in the prologue, there's a happy innocence to it and the strong implication that she is his dearest because he has no other dear to him.
But here in the epilogue... Now she is his dearest on earth -- for his other dear one no longer lives. And the gift of her kiss means more now than it did then, because he never had the gift of his other dear one's kiss. He kissed Keith, but that kiss was never -- and now never will be -- returned.