'This is the happiest moment I have ever known,' he said.

'Do you know why ?' 'I think I saw a flash of lightning through the opening of the tent,' said Paula, with roguish abruptness.
He did not press for an answer.

Within a few minutes a long growl of thunder was heard.

It was as if Jove could not refrain from testifying his jealousy of Somerset for taking this covetable woman so presumptuously in his arms.
The dance was over, and he had retired with Paula to the back of the tent, when another faint flash of lightning was visible through an opening.

She lifted the canvas, and looked out, Somerset looking out behind her.