afterward these two sat long in the twilight, talking very little, and with their eyes rarely meeting, although their hands met frequently at quite irrelevant intervals. just the graze of a butterfly to make it certain that the other was there: but all the while they both regarded the tiny fire which had set each content of the room a-dancing in the companionable darkness. for each, i take it, preferred to think of the other as being still the naïve young person each remembered; and the firelight made such thinking easier.

"d'ye remember—?" was woven like a refrain through their placid duo….

it was, one estimates, their highest hour. frivolous and trivial persons you might have called them and have justified the accusation; but even to the fop and the coquette was granted an hour wherein all human happenings seemed to be ordered by supernal wisdom lovingly. very soon they would forget this hour; meanwhile there was a wonderful sense of dreams come true.