“Kneel not to me.”

“Igraine.”

“Pelleas.”

“Let me touch you.”

“There, there, you have my hand.”

“My God, my God!”

Igraine gave a low cry, half knelt, half fell before him. Pelleas’s arms caught her, his face hung over hers, her hair fell down and trailed a golden pool upon the grass. She put her hands up and touched his hair, smiled wonderfully, and looked at him as though she were dying.

“Kiss me, Pelleas.”

Pelleas drew a deep breath; his body seemed to quake; his whole soul was sucked up by the girl’s lips.

“Igraine,” was all he said.