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Jude making a plunge for it and capturing it triumphantly. Her face flushed; and becoming suddenly conscious, he flushed also.
They looked at each other, panting; till he rose and said: "One kiss; now I can do it without damage to property, and I'll go!"
But she had jumped up too. "You must find me first!" she cried.
Her lover followed her as she withdrew. It was now dark inside the room, and the window being small, he could not discover for a long time what had become of her, till a laugh revealed her to have rushed up the stairs, whither Jude rushed at her heels.