Some subtle perfume reaching me and combining with the dominion that her eyes seemed to have established over me completed my subjugation.

I was as warm wax in her hands.

Forgotten were all considerations of rank and station.

We were just a man and a woman whose fates were linked irrevocably by love.

I stooped suddenly, under the sway of an impulse, I could not resist, and kissed her upturned face, turning almost dizzy in the act.