And it seemed to me that the Room was too small for this couple, although it was full of the evening.
"They didn't see us!" It was the same phrase which had come the other day from the two children.
He said, "Come!" leading her over to the sofa, near the window, and they seated themselves on the red velvet.

I saw their arms joined together as though by a cord.

They remained there, engrossed, gathering about them all the shadow of the world, reviving, beginning to live again in their element of night and solitude.
What an entry, what an entry! What an irruption of anathema! I had thought, when this form of sin presented itself before me, when the woman appeared at the door, plainly driven toward him, that I should witness bliss in its plenitude, a savage and animal joy, as momentous as nature.

On the contrary, I found that this meeting was like a heart-rending farewell.
"Then we shall always be afraid ?" She seemed just a little more tranquil, and said this with an anxious glance at him, as if really expecting a reply.
She shuddered, huddled in the shadows, feverishly stroking and pressing the man's hand, sitting upright, stiffly.

I saw her throat rising and falling like the sea.