But still--in your place--you men, you love differently from us.

And not so well," she added with a sigh, as Anne appeared with her fur-lined cloak, and announced that the carriage was waiting.
Some hours later Wilhelm was startled out of a deep sleep by burning kisses.

He opened his dazed eyes, and, blinking in the lamplight, saw Pilar standing by the bed as if in a cloud.

She held her great bouquet in one hand, and with the other was plucking the roses and gardenias to pieces, and strewing the petals over his head and face, as she did in the sunny afternoons at St.Valery.She must have been engaged in this pastime for a considerable time, for the pillows and quilt were covered with flowers, and his hair was full of them.

As neither Pilar's entry with the lamp nor the shower of blossoms had succeeded in wakening him, she had leaned over him and roused him with a kiss.
"Oh, sleepy head!" she cried, and continued to rain flowers on his dazzled, blinking eyes.