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He was still in the toils of the might-have-been, of that wasting process an examination, and turning over in his mind logistics, logarithms, trajectories, equations, and a mob of disconnected questions. "Oh, by George!" he exclaimed, "what's the worth while of it?"
There could be no wrong in two people caring for one another, and wanting to live their lives together." "Ah! that we shall never know, my child. The book of the 'might-have-been' is a closed one for us. Only God has the power to turn over its pages." "Andor and I would have been so happy!" she reiterated, with the obstinacy of a vain regret; "and life would have been an earthly paradise."
But then the thought of his disgrace a disgrace he could not share with a wife always dissipated the beautiful vision and made the hard reality of what was, seem tenfold harder for the ravishing beauty of what might have been. And now the vision of the might-have-been came back to him more clearly than ever, and he sat a long while with his head leaning on his hand.
Turn your back on the might-have-been, and try with all your might to like what is! Aunt Maria will, I know, be all that is kind and indulgent in her own way! It won't be your way, however, and that's the rub.
When the latter was able to examine her correspondence, Diana brought her the heap for perusal, her own sealed scribble, throbbing with all the fatal might-have-been, under her eyes. She could have concealed and destroyed it. She sat beside her friend, awaiting her turn, hearing her say at the superscription: 'Your writing, Tony? and she nodded.
For herself asking only with a sublime submission "Nearer, my God, to Thee; E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me!" "Look in my face. My name is Might-have-been: I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell." "Was that the landmark?
I don't know whether or not the cry "Last call for the dining-car" affects others as it affects me, but for me it always has a stern, fateful sound, suggestive of momentous opportunity fast slipping away, opportunity that can never come again; and, on the occasions when I have disregarded it, I have been haunted with a sense of the neglected "might-have-been."
Rivière could see that Elaine was reading into every sentence the might-have-been of her own wrecked life. He hurried through it as quickly as possible, and then they chatted for some time of impersonal matters. His words began to come from him with a curious husky abruptness. Elaine felt the tension, and knew that he had something important to tell her. She sought to help him to it.
On the scented and slumbrous air, Strange thoughts are thronging; And a blind desire more fierce than fire Fills the soul with longing; Through the silence heavy and sweet Comes the panting breath Of a lover unseen from the Might-Have-Been, Whose loving is Death! In the darkness a deed was done, A wild word spoken! A joy was tasted, a passion wasted, A heart was broken!
For, here to think of the future, unless in terms of material necessities, to dream, to brood, means death or madness. But Bompard and La Touche, resting themselves after their labours, were not living in the moment nor in the past nor in the present, they were living in that strange sad land called the Might-Have-Been.
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