'Giulia, I love you!'
She bent over to me, and put forward her face; and then--then I took her
in my arms and covered her mouth with kisses. Oh God! I was mad, I had
never tasted such happiness before. Her beautiful mouth, it was so soft,
so small, I gasped in the agony of my happiness. If I could only have
died then!
Giulia! Giulia!
* * * * *
The cock crew, and the night seemed to fade away into greyness. The
first light of dawn broke through the windows, and I pressed my love to
my heart in one last kiss.
'Not yet,' she said; 'I love you.'