Chapter 10For who is there that lives and knows
The secret-powers by which he grows?
‘Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?
Then seek not, sweet, the ‘If and “Why’
I love you now until I die.
for I must love because I live
And life in me is what you give.
— “Because She “Would Ask Me “Why I Loved her’
by Christopher “Brennan
An hour hadn’t yet passed away since Aashi had started waiting by Abhi’s bedside. And she had already walked all around the room twice, adjusted and smoothed down Abhi’s bed sheets three times and looked at his face several times over to find any signs of approaching consciousness. Finally, her waiting ears picked up a low moan.
Aashi turned quickly and saw Abhi’s eyes flutter open. She sprang from her chair and steppe
