With her eyes giving light to his, the stars might come out, and he not see them; and so they did.

The night might fall with unrelieved darkness everywhere else; her look would make illumination for him.

And then, as everybody knows, given youth and such companionship, there is no situation in which the fancy takes such complete control as upon tranquil waters under a calm night sky, warm with summer.

It is so easy at such time to glide imperceptibly out of the commonplace into the ideal.
"Give me the rudder," he said.
"No," she replied, "that were to reverse the relation.

Did I not ask you to ride with me?
I am indebted to you, and would begin payment.