Her hunger faded completely into the background.
He lighted a cigarette and began to smoke.

The space beyond them was full of moving figures and laughing voices; but the turmoil scarcely reached Dinah.

An invisible barrier seemed to shut them off from all the rest.
They were not merely aloof; they were alone, and a curiously intimate touch pervaded their solitude.

She felt her spirit start in quivering response to the call of his, just as the night before when she had floated with him above the clouds.

What was happening to her she had not the least idea, but the consciousness of his near presence pulsed magnetically through and through her.