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Updated: May 23, 2025
He tapped smartly at the door. Immediately it was opened by a graceful boy, dressed in a long, belted coat of dun-colour. He had straight black hair, and eyes which one saw before one saw his face, and he gravely bowed to each of the party in turn before answering St. George's question. "Assuredly," said the youth in perfect English, "enter."
She had tried innuendo he did not understand it; languishing he gladly left her to languish; coquetry elsewhere he asked nothing better. She thought she must be more direct; and she was. Isoult was in the pantry alone the second day of Prosper's quest. She stood at gaze out of the window, seeing nothing but dun-colour and drab where the sunlight made all the trees golden-green.
Beyond, seen beneath their down-sweeping branches, the surface of the Long Water repeated the hot purple, the dun-colour and silver-pink, of the sky. On the opposite slope, extending from the elm avenue to the outlying masses of the woods and upward to the line of oaks which run parallel with the park palings, were cornlands. The wheat, a red-gold, was already for the most part bound in shocks.
What it meant taking on was Franklin's raylessness, Franklin's obscurity, Franklin's dun-colour could a wife escape the infection? What it meant giving up was more vague, but it floated before her as the rose-coloured dream of her youth the hero, the earnest, ardent hero, who was to light all life to rapture and significance.
But this was a dream and Franklin was the fact, and to-night he seemed the only fact worth looking at. Wasn't dun-colour, after all, preferable to the trivial kaleidoscope of shifting tints which was all that the future, apart from Franklin, seemed to offer her? Might not dun-colour, even, illuminated by joy, turn to gold, like highway dust when the sun shines upon it?
A heavy rain towards dawn had washed down mud from the cliffs which the high tide had carried away, so now the water was a milky dun-colour, scattered with millions of opal lights, answering more closely just then to the thought of a jewelled sea than even the sparkling sapphire Mediterranean.
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