"Isn't it great, Billikins ?" she said.

"And I'd have missed it all if it hadn't been for you.

Just think--if I hadn't jumped--before the safety-curtain--came--down!" She was speaking between his kisses, and eventually they stopped her.
"Don't think," he said; "don't think!" It was the beginning of a new era, the entrance of a new element into their lives.

Perhaps till that night he had never looked upon her wholly in the light of wife.

His blind passion for her had intoxicated him.
She had been to him an elf from fairyland, a being elusive who offered him all the magic of her love, but upon whom he had no claims.