The Business of Life. Chambers Robert William

what?"

      "That he came out of his trance and made love to you."

      "How did you know? Wasn't it dreadful! And he'd always told me that he had never experienced an emotion except when adoring the moon. He was a very dreadful young man – perfectly horrid in his ideas – and I sent him about his business very quickly; and I remember being a little frightened and watching him from the window as he walked off down the street in his soiled drab overcoat and the derby hat on his frizzly hair, and his trousers too high on his ankles – "

      Desboro was so immensely amused at the picture she drew that her pretty brows unbent and she smiled, too.

      "What did he want of you?" he asked.

      "I didn't fully understand at the time – " she hesitated, then, with an angry blush: "He asked me to go to Italy with him. And he said he couldn't marry me because he had already espoused the moon!"