appiness
as with light. At last she knew that she was loved, that the things he
said when they met on the marshes were not said as they had been when
she was a child, and that there had lately been solemnity throned in his
eyes' levity. He made no motion for her to come down, nor when Tom
turned his head again did he throw any furtive look at the window. It
was enough for him to have seen her; and soon he went away with bent
head followed by his forgotten dogs.

Well, now this girl should sleep here, and the place should be revisited
by a love as sacred as that, and one which would not commit sacrilege
upon itself. She gave a soft laugh, and in a haze of satisfaction that
prevented her seeing that Ellen was beginning to tell her how much she
liked the furniture she went out and passed to her own room. For a
moment she stood at the side windows, looking out on the show of sky and
sea and green islands that lay sealed in the embankments from the grey
flood which was now running across the silver plain and trying at them
treacherously through the creeks that lay loverlike beside them. Then
she turned approvingly to the litter which betokened that this was a
bedroom visited by insomnia more often than by sleep: the half-dozen
boxes of different sorts of cigarettes, the plate of apples and figs,
the pile of books, the portfolio of prints. It had been dreadful, that
night at the hotel, with nothing to read. She was very glad to come
home.

It would not have seemed credible to Ellen that anyone should feel like
this about this house. The things in her room were very pretty, but it
was spoiled for her by that large window, not because she was afraid
that anyone would look in, but because Marion had told her that someone
had once looked out. Since that person had been kin to this woman who
was dark with unspent energy, she figured him as being not quite
extinguishable by death and therefore still a tenant of the apartment.
The jealousy of one of his stock would probably have more dynamic power
than her most exalted passions, so she would not be able to evict him.
She thought these things quite passionately and desperately while at the
same time she was placidly brushing her hair and thinking how nice
everything was here. Her mind continued to perform this duet of emotions
when they went downstairs and had lunch. It was very pretty, this white
room with the few etchings set sparsely on the gleaming panels, each
with a fair fiel