In that way I shall realise that you belong to me, and that I love you in the past as well as in the present." She never would have been fatigued in listening to him as he talked of his life, but was in a state of joyous ecstasy in thus becoming thoroughly acquainted with him, adoring him like a little child at the feet of some saint.

Neither of them wearied of repeating the same things: how much they loved each other and how dearly they were beloved in return.

The same words returned constantly to their lips, but they always seemed new, as they assumed unforeseen, immeasurable depths of meaning.

Their happiness increased as they thus made known the secrets of their hearts, and lingered over the music of the words that passed their lips.

He confessed to her the charm her voice had always been to him, so much so that as soon as he heard it he became at once her devoted slave.