The game was his, but there was no more to be won from her that night.

The time had come to descend from the heights to the dull and banal levels.

He divined her wish to return to earth, and he had no reason for thwarting it.

With a careless laugh he put on speed and rushed her dizzily through the throng.
To Dinah it was as a rapid fall through space.

She felt as if she had been suddenly shot from the gates of Olympus.