She gave him a long kiss on the mouth.
"I do love you, do you know!"
"Quite sure?"
"Oh yes! And you?"
"I too, I love you. I wouldn't have believed that I could love you so!"
"Then it came afterwards."
"It always comes afterwards."
"That's true, what you've just said, Robert. Before—one doesn't know."
She shook her head.
"I was very ill yesterday."