I feel so simple with you--as if there was nothing to hide.

We will be happy ?" "Yes," she murmured, and the tears came to her eyes.
"Some sort of perversity in our souls," he said, "makes us not want, get away from, the very thing we want.

We have to fight against that." "Yes," she said, and she felt stunned.
As she stood under the drooping-thorn tree, in the darkness by the roadside, he kissed her, and his fingers wandered over her face.

In the darkness, where he could not see her but only feel her, his passion flooded him.

He clasped her very close.
"Sometime you will have me ?" he murmured, hiding his face on her shoulder.