How weird and fascinating she seemed to him in that green light, which shone upon her face and died away in the fine network of her waving hair! He put his arm around her waist, and suddenly, feeling that she abandoned herself to him, he clasped her in a long, passionate embrace.
"What are you looking for ?" asked Claire, suddenly coming up in the shadow behind them.
Taken by surprise, and with a choking sensation in his throat, Georges trembled so that he could not reply.

Sidonie, on the other hand, rose with the utmost coolness, and said as she shook out her skirt: "The glow-worms.

See how many of them there are tonight.

And how they sparkle." Her eyes also sparkled with extraordinary brilliancy.
"The storm makes them, I suppose," murmured Georges, still trembling.
The storm was indeed near.

At brief intervals great clouds of leaves and dust whirled from one end of the avenue to the other.