It seemed to me that we were both walking on the waves of the sea." "Ah!" she said.

"How good you were! That first evening your face was like what it never was afterwards, even in our happiest moments." "We spoke of one thing and another, and while I held you close to me, clasped like a bunch of flowers, you told me about people we knew, you spoke of the sunlight that day and the coolness of the evening.

But really you were telling me that you were mine.

I felt your confession running through everything you said, and even if you did not express it, you actually gave me a confession of love.
"Ah, how great things are in the beginning! There is never any pettiness in the beginning.
"Once when we met in the public garden, I took you back at the end of the afternoon through the suburbs.

The road was so peaceful and quiet that our footsteps seemed to disturb nature.