Hot sun--gleaming orange-gardens and blue sea--bare-footed, black-eyed children--and a man beside her, on whom she has been showering epithets that would have shamed--surely!--any other human being in the world.

Tears of excitement are in her eyes; in his a laughing triumph mixed with astonishment.
"But, now--" she thinks, drawing herself up, erect and tense, her hands behind her head; "now, I am ready for him.

Let him try such ways again--if he dare!".