It was the Spring that brought Sarah Brown to Mitten Island, and the Spring that first showed her magic.

It was the Spring that awoke her on her first morning in the House of Living Alone.
She awoke because it was so beautiful outside, and because there was a beautiful day coming.

You could see the day secretly making preparations behind a shining mist.

She heard a sound of breathless singing, and the whipping of stirred grass in the garden, the sound of some one unbearably happy, dancing.

Now there is hardly anything but magic abroad before seven o'clock in the morning.