It seemed to them as if they had never kissed before.

Yet their embrace was fraught with suffering and they released one another.

And the chilliness of the night having cooled their fever, they remained in great confusion at some distance one from the other.
Meantime the bells were keeping up their sinister converse in the dark abyss which surrounded the young people.

Miette, trembling and frightened, did not dare to draw near to Silvere again.

She did not even know if he were still there, for she could no longer hear him move.