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"Fleeing cold whiteness, I would sit alone Not in the sun I feared his bronzing light, But in his radiance back around me thrown By fulgent mirrors tempering his might; Thus bathing in a moon-bath not too bright, My skin I tinted slow to ivory tone. "But now, all round was dark, dark all within!
She had come alone, except for such chance escort as she could recruit at the mining town, and now as she walked in the moon-bath of the clearing, there was not a man of them all who carried himself with so free and unwearied a stride. She was dressed in a short riding-skirt and a heavy sweater.
"Perhaps," he announced in a guarded tone, "it is, in a fashion, dread of the wrath to come though my conscience is clear. But you" in his half-whisper she caught an eager note of hope "why aren't you asleep?" She shook her head and in the moon-bath her face flashed into a luminous smile. "I am working up that wrath," she assured him. "I am preparing to be terribly angry with you tomorrow."
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