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They sat in silence

And Soaht: 'Why is all this? Why should I suffer so? What have

I done? It is not ain he looked at her, huddled like a bird that is shot and dying,

whose poor breast you see panting as the air is taken from it, whose

poor eyes look at you who have shot it, with a slow, soft, unseeing

look, taking farewell of all that is good--of the sun, and the air, and

its ht, in the silence, one on each side of the

hearth

And the fus, that he loved so well, seerip Soa

out into the hall he flung the door wide, to gulp down the cold air that

came in; then without hat or overcoat went out into the Square

Along the garden rails a half-starved cat caht: 'Suffering! ill it cease, ?'

At a front door across the as ahis boots, with an air of 'I am master here' And

Soames walked on

From far in the clear air the bells of the church where he and Irene had

beenin 'practice' for the advent of Christ, the

chi for