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She came tith her child to the farm, but there was this

lull between them, an intense calm and passivity like a torpor

upon thee took place He was

alood hu her on a

horse to ride, giving her corn for the fowls

Once he drove the

them up on the road The child huddled close to him as if for

love, the ueness, like a

soft mist over all of them, and a silence as if their wills were

suspended Only he saw her hands, ungloved, folded in her lap,

and he noticed the wedding-ring on her finger It excluded hi-ring, it

stood for her life in which he could have no part Nevertheless,

beyond all this, there was herself and himself which should

her, he

felt he had soed as yet to that other, to that which was behind But he