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His mind, as always when they first met, was wholly absorbed in the delicious details that made her herself and no other. Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects hardly recognisable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances.
He saw the lithograph of the two kittens, age-worn and time-blurred, still crooked on the wall beside the bureau; there was the sand-shaker on the maple desk; there hung the yellowed print of the "Last Supper" above the fireplace all stark and ghostly in that uncannily late afternoon light, which not even the morning sun could dispel. He clutched her hand.
He stood on tiptoe to read the more easily the time-blurred characters, his baggage at his feet, his fingers pressed against the door. Some of the words he could not decipher nor comprehend, but the first was plain to his understanding. "Doom!" said he airily and half aloud. "Doom! Quelle félicité! It is an omen." Then he rapped lightly on the oak with the pommel of his sword.
Like a fog under a wind, the mist swept from the eyes of Anthony; he looked out and saw that the face of the grey man was infinitely sad, and there was a hungry tenderness that reached out, enveloped, weakened him. He glanced down, saw that his heel was on the mount of the grave; saw again the headstone and the time-blurred inscription: "Here sleeps Joan, the wife of William Drew.
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