They were as much alone as though they were in a desert, up there in the darkness at the back of the bus, with the long line of blurred jewels that were the street lamps stretching away before them.
They passed close to the trees overhanging a square, and the branches brushed them.
"The sap is stirring in the trees to-night," she said.

"Can't you smell the sap and the earth ?" "I associate you with the country and green things," he answered irrelevantly.

"Can you tell me, Miss Gray, how it is that I who have always seen you in London yet always think of you in fields and woods ?" She laughed with a fresh sound of mirth.
"We met long ago, Sir Robin," she said.

"I have always been wondering how long it would be before you found out." "Where ?" "Think!" A sudden light broke over him.
"You were the little girl who came with old Lady Anne Hamilton to the Court.

It is nine years ago.