"And if I were to tell you all that I think of you," he added, after a moment's pause, "it would take me a great deal longer than this quarter of an hour's interval." These were their first few moments absolutely alone.

Neither of them was unduly emotional, neither wholly free from experience, yet they looked and spoke and felt as though the coming of new things was at hand.

The atmosphere of music, still present, was a wonderful background to the intensified sensations of which both were conscious.

Naida had the utmost difficulty in steadying her voice.
"I wanted to talk to you seriously because you can help me very much if you will," she began.

"In a sense, I am over here upon a mission.