It was all quite wonderful, and it involved certain posings, attitudes, mimicry and pantomime, for they were really ingenious charades.
So it happened that Zoe's fingers often came in touch with those of the stage-manager, that his hands touched her shoulders, that his cheek brushed against her dark hair once, and that she had sensations never experienced before.

Why was it that she thrilled when she came near to him, that her whole body throbbed and her heart fluttered when their shoulders or arms touched?
Her childlike nature, with all its warmth and vibration of life, had never till now felt the stir of sex in its vital sense.

All men had in one way been the same to her; but now she realized that there was a world-wide difference between her Judge Carcasson, her little Clerk of the Court, and this young man whose eyes drank hers.

She had often been excited, even wildly agitated, had been like a sprite let loose in quiet ways; but that was mere spirit.

Here was body and senses too; here was her whole being alive to a music, which had an aching sweetness and a harmony coaxing every sense into delight.
"To-morrow evening, by the flume, where the beechtrees are--come--at six.