, and through this she looked out and down over her
forests.

"The view from My Lady's bedroom," he laughed. "And now My Lady's
bedroom, itself."

He threw open the door, standing aside to watch her pass.

A tiny rudely squared chamber, all in white. Countless warm, furry
pelts of the snowshoe rabbits he had trapped during the winter, made a
white carpet underfoot; a couch unlike the other in that this was
fashioned entirely of white pine, the smooth surfaces polished and
glistening under their many coats of shellac, a coverlet of countless
other white rabbit skins stitched together; a little dressing table of
glistening white pine, with a real mirror reflecting two flushed happy
faces, and on the floor a big white bearskin.

"And you did it all, every bit, yourself!"

That was the thought that flooded the caves for her with a light more
softly radiant than the glow of innumerable electric bulbs; the thought
which hid the little flaws in stone and woodwork and gave a gleam to
them that no mere shellac and white wood could have done.

They went back to the living room to stand, silent for a little, before
the fireplace. They watched the flames shoot upward through little
sprays and clusters of fiery sparks. Their hands crept together,
clinging close. Slowly their eyes came away from the fire and sought
each the other's. And she saw what he saw, a love that is eternal and
that understands.

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