But he looked firmly at her, with a peculiar expression.
Suddenly she felt all her slimness and fragility; she felt all the girl in herself and all the dominant man in him, and all the empty space around them.

She went hot.

Her sight became dim.

She was ecstatically blissful; she was deeply ashamed.

She desired the experience to last for ever, and him and herself to be eternally moveless; and at the same time she desired to fly.