Young People's Pride by Stephen Vincent Benet

An hour later and still the grand news hasn't been told. In fact very / little that Mrs. Ellicott would regard as either sensible or reasonable / has happened at all. Though they do not know it the conversation has / been oddly like that of two dried desert-travellers who have suddenly / come upon water and for quite a while afterwards find it hard to think / of anything else. But finally:

"Dearest, dearest, what was the grand news? " says Oliver half-drowsily. / "We must talk it over, dear, I suppose, I guess, oh, we must -- oh, but / you're so sweet -- " and he relapses again into speechlessness.