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'I can see it in your eyes. You are not thinking of me, but of somebody else.'
"And it was true. At that moment he was thinking of me—fondly, longingly; and then, as he did so, he got more excited, and he caught her in his arms, and hugged and kissed her with far more eagerness than he had hitherto done—nay, he began to suck her tongue as if it had been mine, and then began to thrust his own into her mouth.
"After a few moments of rapture she, this time, stopped to take breath.
"'Yes, I am wrong. You love me. I see it now. You do not despise me because I am here, do you?'
"'Ah! if you could only read in my heart, and see how madly I love you, darling!'
"And she looked at him with longing, passionate eyes.
"'Still you think me light, don't you? I am an adulteress!'
"And thereupon she shuddered, and hid her face in her hands.
"He looked at her for a moment pitifully,
