Now I must go! Hark, there's the thunder again!" Ian had risen also.

"I will go with you.

Yes! It was my purpose to walk through to White Farm.

I sent Fatima around with Peter Lindsay." As they passed the ash-tree there was lightning, but yet the heavens showed great lakes of blue, and a broken sunlight lay upon the path.
"There's time enough! We need not go too fast.

The path is rough for that." They walked in silence, now side by side, now, where the way was narrow, one before the other.