"There's one thing sure about Eden ... in spite of the squabbles and disagreements of the elders, the place is a children's paradise."
"That's only because they have all nature for their backyard—no thanks to their elders," Hildreth answered, looking up into my face with a quick smile, "the grown-ups find misery wherever, they go."
"Does that mean that you are unhappy?"
"I suppose I should say 'no.'"
"I don't understand what you mean."
"Neither do I, then."
Again that sweet, tantalizing, enigmatic droop of her mouth's corner.
We strolled further ... into the fields again ... with linked comradely hands. It seemed that she and I had been born brother and sister in some impossible pastoral idyll.
A change in our spirit again. A fresh desire to romp.