Throughout those weeks and months of tangled, lurid sensations, of amazing happenings which were yet to come, Norgate never once forgot that illuminative rush of fierce yet sweet feelings which suddenly thrilled his pulses.

He understood in that moment the intolerable depression of the last few days.

He realised the absolute advent of the one experience hitherto missing from his life.

The very intensity of his feelings kept him silent, kept him unresponsive to her impetuous but unspoken welcome.
Her arms dropped to her side, her lips for a moment quivered.

Her voice, notwithstanding her efforts to control it, shook a little.