"No, no! He must know nothing; and since he permits himself every licence——"
"There I don't agree with you! The cases are not identical. If he chooses to degrade himself, so much the worse for him. But that's no reason why——"
"No, no!..."
The ecstasy was over. We had come back to earth.
"No! No!" I repeated. "And don't you agree that it's beautiful, new, almost unique—to love, to tell one another of it.... Nothing else!"
"It's as beautiful as a romance," she cried, clapping her hands like a child.
"But it doesn't generally happen like that in fiction!"
"And how good it is to remain honest!"
"The only thing to do!"
"And we shall always meet as before, without fear——"