These frolics so turned them from thoughts of love that one evening they almost fought like a couple of lads coming out of school.

But there were nooks in the country side which were not healthful for them.

So long as they rambled on they were continually shouting with laughter, pushing and teasing one another.
They covered miles and miles of ground; sometimes they went as far as the chain of the Garrigues, following the narrowest paths and cutting across the fields.

The region belonged to them; they lived there as in a conquered territory, enjoying all that the earth and the sky could give them.

Miette, with a woman's lack of scruple, did not hesitate to pluck a bunch of grapes, or a cluster of green almonds, from the vines and almond-trees whose boughs brushed her as she passed; and at this Silvere, with his absolute ideas of honesty, felt vexed, although he did not venture to find fault with the girl, whose occasional sulking distressed him.