"Leave us!" said Eve; and the obe-dient dwarf vanished in silence.
"Is not the evening lovely?" murmured Gerard, who half reclined on a huge divan by the side of Eve, and played with her luxuriant hair, now no longer plaited, but hanging in rich array around her shoulders. "Can there be anything more beautiful in nature than the soft coming of night?"
"It is beautiful, Adam, when one is happy."
"And when it brings one closer to love! The day did not seem long; yet it seems long when I look back upon it. And now, Eve, you are my own, are you not—all mine?"
She looked dreamily up at him through her long eye-lashes. "Yes, Adam!"
"Your hands?" and he kissed them.
"Yes!"
"And your lips, Eve—your lips that are like angels' food to me?"
"Yes, Adam!"
So passed the hours with Adam and Eve for many a day.
