I promise! Do you ?" "If I must," he said with very bad grace--so ungraciously in fact that as they passed from the eastern corridor on to the Spanish balcony she forgot her own promise and slipped her hand into his in half-humourous, half-tender propitiation.
"Are you going to be disagreeable to me, Garry ?" "You darling!" he said; and, laughing, yet secretly dismayed at her own perversion, she hurriedly untwisted her fingers from his and made a new and fervid promise to replace the one just broken.
The moonlight was magnificent, silvering forest, dune, and chaparral.
Far to the east a thin straight gleam revealed the sea.
She seated herself under the wall, lying back against it; he lay extended on the marble shelf beside her, studying the moonlight on her face.
"What was it you had to tell me, Shiela?
Remember I am going in the morning." "I've turned cowardly; I cannot tell you....

Perhaps later....

Look at the Seminole moon, Garry.

They have such a pretty name for it in March--Tau-sau-tchusi--'Little Spring Moon'! And in May they call it the 'Mulberry Moon'-- Kee-hassi, and in November it is a charming name--Hee-wu-li--'Falling Leaf Moon'!--and August is Hyothlucco--'Big Ripening Moon.' ...

Garry, this moonlight is filling my veins with quicksilver.