Eve turned her brown eyes to his "Yes! I too she murmured. All is yours?"
He drew her towards him, and her head fell upon his shoulder, while her thick tresses bathed his face in their fragrant richness.
"Is it all real? Are you real? Is life real, my own; or am I dreaming?"
"Come," she said, "and you shall see;" and she led him from the court into a smaller one containing a table, upon which lay broad dishes of ripe fruit and flagons of wine. "Let us take our first breakfast together, Adam! But wait!"
She led him on to a cool chamber, hung with Indian work.
"There," she said, "you will find all you need. Take off your old dress and put on the one I have laid ready for you. I will go and change mine. We must be fitly robed in paradise."
She laughed merrily, and ere he let her go he kissed her and extorted a promise that she would not leave him for long.
His room was not large, for it was
