Around us, on the cliff-tops, the green pastures and meadows and, farther inland, the cornfields stacked in harvest, and great masses of trees.

Lying on our backs, between sea and sky, we seemed utterly alone.

Carlotta and I were the sole inhabitants of the earth.

I dreamily disintegrated caramels from their sticky tissue-paper wrappings for Carlotta's consumption.
After a while unconquerable drowsiness crept over me; and a little later I had an odd sense of perfect quietude.

I was lying amid moss and violets.