This time he led her into the dusky hallway, where open windows brought the cool night to other low-voiced couples.
He led her to the farthest window, where the shadow was deepest, and they looked out-above the roof of Rapp Brothers, Jewellery-to a sky of pale stars and a blond moon.
"Ain't it great ?" said Pearl.
He stood close to her, trembling from the faintest contact with her loveliness.

He wished to kiss her-he must kiss her.

But he was afraid.
Pearl was sympathetic.

She divined his trouble, and in the deep shadow she adroitly did it herself.

Then she rebuked his boldness.
"Say, but you're the quick little worker, seems to me!" For a moment he was incapable of speech, standing mute, her warm hand in his.
"It's been a dream," he managed at last.