They kissed again and again, lingering upon each kiss as if it were a foothold in heaven.

A great rapture of faith in her lover and his love came over Madelon.

She said to herself that they had lied--they had all lied! Burr had never courted Dorothy Fair.

She believed, with her whole heart and soul, that he loved her and her alone.

And, indeed, she was at that time, at that minute, right and not deceived; for Burr Gordon was one of those who can encompass love in one tense only, and that the present; and they who love only in the present, hampered by no memories and no dreams, yield out love's sweetness fully.