leaving the shop a little way down the street when she had recovered herself sufficiently to observe him she perceived that he was suffering from the same agitation he seemed unable to fix his attention upon the present moment he seemed to have wandered far and when with an effort he returned from the ever future he seemed like a man coming out of another atmosphere � out of a mist at six they were back at their hotel surveying the sitting rooms already with boxes but he hurried her off to the de la saying that she must have some jewels of diamonds and pearls were presented to her for choice you re not looking he said surprise you take no interest in jewels aren t you well yes dearest but i m bewildered when they returned to the hotel the gown she was to wear that night at the opera had arrived it must have cost twenty pounds and i t to spend much more than that in a whole year on my clothes neither cared to go to the opera but half past ten seemed to him quite a proper time for them to return home and for this propriety he was so bored with that he never saw it afterwards with the old pleasure and s glances told of the wasted hours while sang her dream he the depth of his folly if something were to happen if they were to find mr waiting at the door of the hotel if he were robbed of her it would serve him right the in the second act was beautifully sung and it helped them to forget but with the rather rough chorus of men in the second half of the second act their nervous began again and s face was explicit you re tired you re too tired to listen yes i m tired let s go give me my i don t care much for the music he remarked accidentally and then feeling obliged to take advantage of the slip of the tongue he said and are in the chamber in the next act he felt her hand tremble on his arm in two years hence you ll be singing here but you don t answer dear i m thinking of you now her answer was a delicious flattery and he hurried her to the carriage the moment his arm was about her she leaned over him and when their lips parted he uttered a little cry but in the middle of the sitting room she stopped and faced him the way he took her cloak from her shoulders dear if anything should happen but it was not till the third night that they entered into the full possession of their delight every night after seemed more exquisite than the last like sunset skies as beautiful and as she could recall only the moment when from the threshold he looked back nodded a good and then told her he would call her when it was time to get up then in a happy weariness she closed her eyes and when they opened she closed them and curled herself into dreams and thoughts of they were going to the races and he would come and tell her when it was time to get up she hoped this would not be till she had dreamed to the end of her dream but her eyes opened and she saw him in his dressing gown with blue standing in the middle of the room watching her his little was in his eyes they seemed to say so there you are i haven t lost you you re the loveliest thing he said in god s earth dearest i m very fond of you and there was a plaintive and cry in her voice which found echo in the movement with which she threw herself into her lover s arms and laid her head upon his shoulder i ve never seen such a hand it is like a spray of and those eyes � look at me eve why do you call me eve no one ever called me eve before sometimes they are as green as sea water at other times they are grey or nearly most often they are green and your feet are like hands and your ankle � see i can span it between forefinger and thumb your hair is faint like flowers your throat is too thick you have the real singer s throat thousands of pounds lie hidden in that whiteness which is mine � the whiteness not the gold how you know how to praise i love that sweet of chin a retreating chin means want of character you have not what i call a retreating chin the line merely nothing more than a firm chin it means a hard nature eve you re where should i find a sweetheart equal to you that isn t the way i want you to love me isn t it are you sure of that i don t know � perhaps not but why do you make me say these things she held his face between her hands and moved aside his moustache with her lips suddenly herself from his embraces she said i don t want to kiss you any more let s talk dearest do you know what time it is you must get up and dress yourself it is past nine o clock we are going to the races i ll send you the you promise me to get up it was these little airs that enchanted her remembrance of him and while the poured out her bath she thought of the gown she was going to wear she knew that she had some pink silk stockings to match it but it took her a long while to find them she opened all the wrong boxes it s extraordinary she thought how long it 