"I was no longer able to endure the heat under the eaves among my dusty husks.

So lately I have stolen at night to the Spring Waiontha to bathe in the still, cold pools.

Oh, Euan, it is most delicious! I have slept there until dawn, lying up to my throat in the crystal flood." She laughed again.
"And once, lying so, asleep, my body slipped and in I slid, deep, deep in, and awoke in a dreadful fright half drowned." "Is it wise to sleep so in the Water ?" I asked uneasily.
"Oh! Am I ever wise ?" she said wearily.

"And the blood beats in my veins these heated nights so that I am like to suffocate.

I made a bed for me by Mrs.Rannock, but she sobbed in her sleep all night and I could not close my eyes, So I thought of the Spring Waiontha, and the next instant was on my way there, feeling the path with naked feet through the starlight, and dropped my clothing from me in the darkness and sank into the cool, sweet pool.