Page 150 (1/2)

"Madeline!" he cried, suddenly leaning forward and catching her hands

"I rasp of his fingers, the first physical touch of love, an

electric pang seeirl's body; and in the flash

were shown to her new heights and depths in herself, and a thousand dis in the future She felt, in the man, the revelation of that

mystery by which the body's passion slips into passion of the soul--that

soul-love, which by its very nature can never know lassitude nor

revulsion And as actual in hirew radiant with possibility in

herself

She looked up to er face and his eyes like lamps "No, no!"

she cried "Don't tell ?"

"I o"

"I only glanced at it I never looked it in the face"

"Don't examine it too closely now, or I'," he said whimsically "Take it on impulse, Madeline"

But she waved hi her face to one side, and

leaned back in her cushions, while Ellery waited, hardly breathing