Hints:


Robert Browning

Elizabeth Barrett


2处破折号

Finally, Elizabeth and Robert arranged to meet while Elizabeth's father was not in the house. They were nervous, and even shocked, to see each other face to face at last. They continued meeting and talking secretly once or twice a week for the next year. They also continued to write each other letters every day. Elizabeth wrote: "You cannot guess what you are to me – you cannot – it is not possible. It is something to me between dream and miracle." Robert answered that he had never kept a journal before, but he had started one now. in it he wrote the date of every visit with her and how long it lasted. He even wrote the number of minutes they had been together and said that they added up to two full days in length. Then, in September, 1846, in a secret marriage ceremony, Elizabeth Barrett became Elizabeth Barrett Browning. A week later, without telling Elizabeth's father, the happy couple eloped to Italy. The shock was terrible for Mr. Barrett, but his anger could not diminish their happiness. In 1849, they succeeded in having a son. They lived in Italy, extremely happy, for 15 years, until Elizabeth's death in 1861.