It was like her habitual impudence to ignore him thus.
He gathered himself together and sent a furious bellow into the darkness.
But there came back no reply.

The hoofs ahead seemed to quicken into a shambling trot, that was all.

And after a little he heard them no more.
She had reached the house then, and gone within into light and comfort, and again feverishly he execrated her for not waiting for him, the cold and the rain and the dark notwithstanding.

Again fitfully he began to see those leaping points of light; but it was only here and there.
Whenever he focussed his attention upon them they eluded him.

For these also he held his wife in some fashion responsible.