It's a marvellous system." He watched her white teeth set themselves daintily in the rich nougat; then the red lips closed tranquilly only to open again in a smile of rapture.

For reasons best known to himself, he chose not to risk losing the thing he had vowed not to lose.

He turned his head--and carefully inspected the end of his cigarette.

A wholly unnecessary precaution, as any one might have seen that it was behaving beautifully.
Her eyes narrowed ever so slightly as she studied his averted face in that brief instant.

When he turned to her again, she was resting her head against the back of the chair, and her eyes were closed as if in exquisite enjoyment of the morsel that lay behind her smiling lips.
"Are you enjoying it ?" he asked.
"Tremendously," she replied, opening her eyes slowly.
"'Gad, I believe you are," he exclaimed.