Her eyelids drooped; she was pale as the dead without, so pale that her eyebrows looked abnormally and dreadfully dark.

She did not cling to him.

Neither did she resist his caresses, but lay passive in his arms as though her proper paradise was there.

And neither heard me enter; it was as though they had forgotten all the world but one another.
"So this is it," said I very calmly.

I can hear my voice as I write.
They fell apart on the instant.