Ardita frowned and then smiled.
“So that’s what you did! You have got nerve!”
He bowed.
“A well-known bourgeois quality,” he said.
And then dawn slanted dynamically across the deck and flung the shadows reeling into gray corners. The dew rose and turned to golden mist, thin as a dream, enveloping them until they seemed gossamer relics of the late night, infinitely transient and already fading. For a moment sea and sky were breathless, and dawn held a pink hand over the young mouth of life—then from out in the lake came the complaint of a rowboat and the swish of oars.
Suddenly against the golden furnace low in the east their two graceful figures melted into one, and he was kissing her spoiled young mouth.
“It’s a sort of glory,” he murmured after a second.
She smiled up at him.
“Ha
