For a long moment he stood in silence beside her in the sun-splashed glade. He listened to the gentle sound of the wind in the trees and the restless murmur of the sea. Presently he replied, but with a question. "Are you happy here, Deve?" "Oh, yes!" she breathed. He took her in his arms, the spaceship and the past completely forgotten. "Then this is ... Paradise," he said. EPILOGUE ... And twenty thousand years after, as Man reached again for the stars ... these two lived in memory ... as _Adam and Eve_.