She came to earth after her rapturous flight, and found herself standing with her partner in a curtained recess of the ballroom from which a glass door led on to the verandah that ran round the hotel.
"Just a glimpse of the moonlight on the mountains," he said, "before we say good-night!" She went with him without a moment's thought.

She was as one caught in the meshes of a great enchantment.

He opened the door, and she passed through on to the verandah.
The music throbbed into silence behind them.

Before them lay a fairy-world of dazzling silver and deepest, darkest sapphire.

The mountains stood in solemn grandeur, domes of white mystery.