“It makes me faint with ecstasy,” he said. “Yet, Sado-ko, I am fearful.”
“Oh, be not fearful,” she said.
“On my knees I could adore you, but—”
“But? You do not finish.”
“Princess!”
“Do not call me princess. Forget for but a little while that I am such. I, too, would forget, my Junzo.”
“I must remember for us both,” he said. “My honor—O sweet Sado-ko—thy honor—”
“Sado-ko is ill with honor,” she replied. “Give me for a change a little of that simple love I have not had since my august grandmother died.”
“O innocent princess!”
She laughed softly.