Augustine's Confessions

The day now approaching whereon she was to depart this life it came to pass Thyself as I believe by Thy secret ways so ordering it that she and I stood alone leaning in a certain window which looked into the garden of the house where we now lay at Ostia where removed from the din of men we were recruiting from the fatigues of a long journey for the voyage. We were discoursing then together alone very sweetly and forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before we were enquiring between ourselves in the presence of the Truth