And remember that--she is not a man." This, like other appeals of the same nature, fell on stony ground.

Paul simply did not understand it.

In all the years of his work among the peasants it is possible that some well-spring of conventional charity had been dried up--scorched in the glare of burning injustice.

He was not at this moment in a mood to consider the only excuse that Steinmetz seemed to be able to urge.
The sun had set long ago.

The short twilight lay over the snow-covered land with a chill hopelessness.