She became as heavy as lead--just as she had been before he arrived.

Her whole being seemed to dissolve in a sad powerlessness to do anything, and the sense of it made her lips tremulous and her closed eyes wet.

His footsteps again startled her, and she turned round.
"I returned for a moment to tell you that the evening is going to be fine.

The sun is shining; so do open your curtains and put out those lights.

Shall I do it for you ?" "Please--if you don't mind." He drew back the window-curtains, whereupon the red glow of the lamp and the two candle-flames became almost invisible with the flood of late autumn sunlight that poured in.