A sea of great shaggy heads and crouching bodies surrounded her, a fierce yellow and green-eyed horde flattened like a single beast upon their bellies their heads turned toward her, their throats swelling and their eyes gleaming in the joyous excitement of her return.

An instant of that strange and thrilling picture, and the night was black again.

The girl's voice spoke softly.

Bodies shuffled out of her path.

And then she said, quite near to him; "Are you coming, Philip ?".