Perhaps she had doubted how he would come home from that first day of work. For just a moment they drank full reassurance from each other's eyes; then Adriance was across the room.
"Put it down or I'll spill it!"
"Sir, this is a soup extraordinary! Would you overturn your supper?"
"Yes, for this," said Adriance, and kissed her soft mouth.
"Anthony, can one be too happy and affront the fates?"
"No."
"We can go on and on, and nothing will happen!"
"Please God!" said Tony Adriance with perfect reverence.
"It is not a wonderful adventure now; it is just life?"
"Of course. I say—I wish that van-driver could see me now—the one I told you about last night."