"Sometimes the boat comes as early as half-past." And she stood up.
As he faced her the generous impulse surged again.

He caught her in his arms, she not resisting.

He kissed her again and again, murmuring disconnected words of endearment and fighting back the offer to marry her.

"I mustn't! I mustn't!" he said to himself.
"What'd become of us ?" If his passions had been as virgin, as inexperienced, as hers, no power could have held him from going with her and marrying her.

But experience had taught him the abysmal difference between before and after; and he found strength to be sensible, even in the height of his passionate longing for her.
She clasped her arms about his neck.