and many women give it but once in their lives. It is soft and beseeching and staid it is a revelation, for one instant, from another nature; and it is apologetic; but withal it is indescribable.
Gerard kissed her again, and, as he did so, watched her eyes close, as with languor.
"My own, now and for ever!" he whispered. How her heart beat!
"And you really love me?" she asked, half timidly.
Of course he kissed her once more. "This is our paradise, Stella———"
"Eve! I am the Eve of paradise, and you shall be Adam!"
"But Eve was never half so lovely as you. I dare say she had big feet, for instance."
She stretched out a foot and regarded it.
"And mine are not so small, Adam," she smiled.
"It is very little and very lovely, Eve. Do you give that also to me?"
She laughed. "Why do you want me at all?"
