It was much later that the Marquis kissed Romana’s forehead and she stirred against his shoulder.
“What are you thinking?” he asked.
“That – nothing that has happened is – really true – but in some mysterious way we have stepped into one of Papa’s poems – and become part of the – Gods ourselves.”
“That is what I feel,” the Marquis said, “and I think, my darling, we have found ‘the fires of God which flame in the high hill-forests’.”
Romana gave a little cry of delight.
“That was a line just before the ones you translated.”
“I thought you would remember it,” he said. “As it was true for me, I so want it to be true for you too.”
“I did not – know that love could be so – wonderful and so exciting!” Romana said, “and so absolutely and completely – beautiful.”
“That is because it is rea
