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And at last she began to draw near to him, she nestled to

him His li to him, she cleaved to his body The flames swept him, he

held her in sinews of fire If she would kiss him! He bent his

mouth down And her mouth, soft and uish of thankfulness, his heart

was ratefulness, he could pour himself out upon her

for ever

When they caone by They lay still and warether And there was a silence al happily, after the pain He

did not understand, he had yielded, given way There was

no understanding There could be only acquiescence and

submission, and tre, when they woke up, it had snowed He

wondered as the strange pallor in the air, and the unusual

tang Snoas on the grass and the -sill, it weighed down

the black, ragged branches of the yews, and san to snow again, and they were shut in He was

glad, for then they were immune in a shadowy silence, there was

no world, no time

The snow lasted for some days On the Sunday they went to

church They arden, he

left a flat snowprint of his hand on the wall as he vaulted