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There were shouts of coarse answer from the roof of the

church The place echoed desolate

Skrebensky sat close to her Everything see into ruins, and she and he

cla unhurt, lawless over the face of it all He sat close

to her, touching her, and she are of his influence upon

her But she was glad It excited her to feel the press of hi

As they drove home, he sat near to her And when he swayed to

the cart, he swayed in a voluptuous, lingering way, against her,

lingering as he swung away to recover balance Without speaking,

he took her hand across, under the wrap, and with his unseeing

face lifted to the road, his soul intent, he began with his one

hand to unfasten the buttons of her glove, to push back her

glove fro bare her hand And the

close-working, instinctive subtlety of his fingers upon her hand

sent the young girl ht His hand was so

wonderful, intent as a living creature skilfully pushing and

love and

laying bare her palers Then his hand closed over

hers, so fir

his hand and hers Meanwhile his face watched the road and the

ears of the horse, he drove with steady attention through the

villages, and she sat beside hiht Neither of them spoke In outward attention they were

entirely separate But between them was the compact of his flesh