I fancy I feel like a woman sometimes.

I do so to-night--and always when the rain drips from my hair.

For there is an old prophecy in our woods that one day we shall all be men and women like you.

Do you know anything about it in your region?
Shall I be very happy when I am a woman?
I fear not, for it is always in nights like these that I feel like one.

But I long to be a woman for all that." I had let her talk on, for her voice was like a solution of all musical sounds.