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At either end of the terrace flourished a thicket of gum-cistus, syringa, stephanotis, and geranium bushes; and the wall itself, dropping sheer down to the road, was bordered with the customary Florentine hedge of China roses and irises, now out of bloom.
There a hundred umbrellas, yellow, red, mauve and magenta, lemon yellow, cadmium yellow, gold, a multi-coloured mass spread their extended bellies to a sky blue as the blouses. The brown fingers of the peasant women are tying and pressing all the miraculous bloom of the earth into the fair fingers of Saxon girls great packages of roses, pink lilies, clematis, stephanotis, and honeysuckle.
The old church was all in white; great lilies in vases, wreaths of stephanotis; and, above all, roses great garlands of white roses had been woven, and they hung along and across. A blossom fell, a sob sounded in the stillness. An hour of roses, an hour of sorrow, and the coffin sank out of sight, a snow-drift of delicate bloom descended into the earth.
"Not at all, he loves her to come as much as I do. She haunts both my rooms and the chapel, too she wears a white dress and has some stephanotis in her hair and I am somehow compelled to enact a whole scene with her there before the altar with all the candles blazing and it seems as if I put a ring upon her hand like the one you are wearing there she has lovely hands."
But in fact he found them tearing, great, smelly things. Obliged by Annette to have one a Rollhard with pearl-grey cushions, electric light, little mirrors, trays for the ashes of cigarettes, flower vases all smelling of petrol and stephanotis he regarded it much as he used to regard his brother-in-law, Montague Dartie.
She held in her hand an enormous bouquet, composed of the rarest flowers of India: the stephanotis and the gardenia mingled the dead white of their blossoms with the purple hibiscus and Java amaryllis.
Before Phyl could answer this recondite question, she found herself enveloped in frills and a vague perfume of stephanotis. Maria Pinckney had taken her literally to her heart, and was kissing her as people kiss small children, kissing her and half crying at the same time, whilst Pinckney stood by wondering.
Everything that he had valued before became obliterated by the blindness of his love for the girl. Yet still the love seemed to soften him. Into his life had come new, strange emotions. The sensuous odor of stephanotis, that had not repelled in the old life, had come to suggest a pestilence in his nostrils, made clean by the purity of lilac.
When they next saw her she was in her coffin. It was almost full of white blossoms jasmine, Eucharis lilies, white roses, and in the midst of the flowers you saw the hands folded, and the face was veiled with some delicate filmy handkerchief. For the funeral there were crosses and wreaths of white flowers, roses and stephanotis.
When he returned to his sitting-room he found his bride-to-be arranging her hat at the old mirror which had reflected her before. "Won't you take it off?" he suggested "and see, I have got you some flowers " and he brought her a great bunch of stephanotis which lay waiting upon a table near.
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