`` And when I 'm an angel -- if I ever get to be one -- will my name still be Peter ? '' `` No . You 'll have a new name up there , '' said Cecily gently . `` It says so in the Bible . '' `` Well , I 'm glad of that . Peter would be such a funny name for an angel . And what is the difference between angels and archangels ? '' `` Oh , archangels are angels that have been angels so long that they 've had time to grow better and brighter and more beautiful than newer angels , '' said the Story Girl , who probably made that explanation up on the spur of the moment , just to pacify Peter . `` How long does it take for an angel to grow into an archangel ? '' pursued Peter . `` Oh , I do n't know . Millions of years likely . And even then I do n't suppose ALL the angels do . A good many of them must just stay plain angels , I expect . '' `` I shall be satisfied just to be a plain angel , '' said Felicity modestly . `` Oh , see here , if you 're going to interrupt and argue over everything , we 'll never get the story told , '' said Felix . `` Dry up , all of you , and let the Story Girl go on . '' We dried up , and the Story Girl went on . `` Zerah and Zulamith loved each other , just as mortals love , and this is forbidden by the laws of the Almighty . And because Zerah and Zulamith had so broken God 's law they were banished from His presence to the uttermost bounds of the universe .
If they had been banished TOGETHER it would have been no punishment ; so Zerah was exiled to a star on one side of the universe , and Zulamith was sent to a star XXXXX the other side of the universe ; and between them was a fathomless abyss which thought itself could not cross .
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