How sad, but beautiful story, @churchboy. As poetic as the sea that bathes the feet and goes away. How many of us have not lived a love that should have been, but life did not want. In this story we see how there is the doubt of what would have happened if she had answered his question differently, but first of all, why he did not ask differently. We find that the structure of this story makes us go to a past that apparently comes and goes like those sea waves, again and again, leaving her orphaned like a rock. Greetings