She turned and looked at him. "We came off together that time," he said.
She did not answer.
"It's good when it's like that. Most folks lives their lives through and they never know it," he said, speaking rather dreamily.
She looked into his brooding face.
"Do they?" she said. "Are you glad?"
He looked back into her eyes. "Glad," he said. "Ay, but never mind." He did not want her to talk. And he bent over her and kissed her, and she felt, so he must kiss her for ever.
At last she sat up.
"Don't people often come off together?" she asked with naive curiosity.
"A good many of them never. You can see by the raw look of them." He spoke unwittingly, regretting he had begun.
"Have you come off like that with other women?"