garden-gap

Updated: June 21, 2025

Then at last the pacing of a horse became audible on the soft path without, leading up from the water-meads, simultaneously with which she beheld the form of the stranger, riding home, as he had said. The moonlight so flooded her face as to make her very conspicuous in the garden-gap. 'Ah my maiden what is your name Margery! he said. 'How came you here? But of course I remember we were to meet.

Thomas Hardy - The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid