108 MYSTERIES:
PERCY.
It is like your eyes. [Comes out into corridor.]
Esmé! I have looked into your eyes as your eyes
look into Heaven, and there I have found my Heaven.
O serene depths! O faultless face of my desire! O
white brow too clear! I sin against your holiness by
my presence. Only the moon should see you, Esmé.
ESME [half in tears]. .
You don’t mean like that, Percy, quite. Why do
you say that?
Enter Vaughan in shadow. He draws back and
.Stands watching.
PERCY.
Oh, you are crying, my heart! Do you cry because
I have spoken and touched with fire the sweet child-
love we have lived in all this year? Or is it that you
do not understand? Or are you sorry? Or are you
glad? |
ESME.
I am very, very glad. [They kiss. A iittle cloud
passes across the moon without dimming its brightness.]
Percy! Percy!
Pore. dob ERCY.
My wife,my own wrfe; will you kiss me?
ESME,
I am too happy to kiss you!