"...I had been warned at the beginning that a Time Patrol agent's life becomes a series of farewells. I had yet to learn what that really meant." (1980, p. 351)
He learns in this story.
"'You are a field agent of the Time Patrol; this is not the last mourning you will ever have reason to do.'" (2319, p. 378)
"The Wanderer took his hand, made as if to speak, but blinked hard, wheeled, strode off. The last sight Tharasmund had of him was his hat, cloak, and spear, away down the winter road." (366-372, p. 426)
This third passage is an excellent example of two people seeing each for the last time without knowing that it is the last time. And "the winter road" is a fully appropriate road for the Wanderer to walk. Tharasmund dies on the following page.
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