Status Updates From The Kiss

“She felt like a chess player who, by the clever handling of his pieces, sees the game taking the course intended. Her eyes were bright and tender with a smile as they glanced up into his; and her lips looked hungry for the kiss which they invited.”

“I suppose it's natural for a man to feel and act generously on an occasion of this kind. He tells me he doesn't want his marriage to interrupt wholly that pleasant intimacy which has existed between you and me. I don't know what you've been telling him," with an insolent smile, "but he has sent me here to kiss you.”

“Oh, I know it is absurd, uncalled for, to tell you this; undignified even," she was almost weeping, "but it makes so much difference to me what you think of–of me." Her voice had grown very low and agitated. The misery had all disappeared from Brantain's face.”

“They were talking low, of indifferent things which plainly were not the things that occupied their thoughts. She knew that he loved her–a frank, blustering fellow without guile enough to conceal his feelings, and no desire to do so.”

“Brantain sat in one of these shadows; it had overtaken him and he did not mind. The obscurity lent him courage to keep his eyes fastened as ardently as he liked upon the girl who sat in the firelight.”