With thick fingers he prepared a pot of tea while she made toast and these preparations seemed to consume their entire attention, until at last they sat opposite each other at a table and he smiled. He remembered the girlishness of her body and smiled with love, he knew he would soon be on his way back to the forests of the mountains, but his soul for a mo­ment blazed with love and shone in his face and she looked full into his eyes and let her eyes search his eyes, but neither could prevent the gar­gantuan motion of the sphere and the moment passed.