One finds a physical freedom in which one's very soul seems to expand; one hears the happiest calls of fancy.

And the most wonderful, most delightful thing of all is to discover that one is oneself, strangely enough, able to respond--" The words reached the woman beside him like some cool dropping balm, healing, inconceivably precious.

She knew her share in all this that he recounted.

He might not dream of it, might well confound her with the general pulse; but she knew the sweet and separate subcurrent that her life had been in his, felt herself underlying all these new joys of his, could tell him how dear she was.

But it seemed that he must not guess.
It came to her with force that his dim perception of his case was grotesque, that it humiliated him.