It was not that their beating pulses, and the throbbing in them, was not the ancient passion which has overturned an empire, or made a little spot of earth as dear as Heaven above.

It was that these were forbidden things, and Louise and Orlando accepted that they were forbidden.
How long would this position last?
What would the future bring?
This was only the fluttering approach of two natures, from everlasting distances.
The girl had been roused out of sleep; from her understanding the curtains had been flung back so that she might see.

How long would it last, this simple, unsoiled story of two lives?
Orlando reached out his hand to put his cup back upon the tray.

As her own hand was extended to take it, her fingers touched his.

Then her face flushed, and a warm cloud seemed to bedim her eyes.