Will you be able to receive us all ?" "You are welcome every one," she answered.

"Sooner or later all will be little ones, for all must sleep in my house! It is well with those that go to sleep young and willing!--My husband is even now preparing her couch for Lilith.

She is neither young nor quite willing, but it is well indeed that she is come." I heard no more.

Mother and daughter had gone away together through the dark.

But we saw a light in the distance, and toward it we went stumbling over the moor.
Adam stood in the door, holding the candle to guide us, and talking with his wife, who, behind him, laid bread and wine on the table within.
"Happy children," I heard her say, "to have looked already on the face of my daughter! Surely it is the loveliest in the great world!" When we reached the door, Adam welcomed us almost merrily.