It's going to be a great help to us, having something like that to go by." "Oh," said Peter, "you put it very prettily, my dear." He was aware as soon as he had said it, that she would have a way always of putting things prettily, and that not for the sake of any prettiness, but because it was so intrinsically she saw them.

It would make everything much simpler that she was always sufficiently to be believed.
"It isn't, you know," she went on, "as if I should have continually to prop up my confidence with my affection as I might with a man of less experience.

Oh!" she threw out her arms with a beautiful upward motion, "you give me so much room, Peter." "Well, more than I would give you at this moment if we were not in a gondola on a public highway!" He amazed himself at the felicity with which during the three days of their engagement he had been able to take that note with her, still more at the entertainment of her shy response.

It gave him a new and enlarged perception of himself as a man acquainted with passion.

All that had been withheld from him, by the mere experience of missing, he was able to bestow with largesse.