"My thoughts are not worth expressing, Ralph," she said.
"Let us hear them all the same!" he said, laying his head against her shoulder.
She sat very still in his hold.

"I was only watching the moonlight," she said.

"Somehow it made me think--of a flaming sword." "Turning all ways ?" he suggested, indolently humorous.

"Not driving us forth out of the garden of Eden, I hope?
That would be a little hard on two such inoffensive mortals as we are, eh, sweetheart ?" "I don't know," she said seriously.

"I doubt if the plea of inoffensiveness would open the gates of Heaven to any one." He laughed.