Oh, you are breaking my fingers!" Haggart threatens: "If you don't keep still, dog, I'll break every bone of your body! I'll pull every vein out of your body, if you don't keep still, you dog!" Silence.

The distant breakers are softly groaning, as if complaining--the sea has gone far away from the black earth.

And the night is silent.

It came no one knows whence and spread over the earth; it spread over the earth and is silent; it is silent, waiting for something.

And ferocious mists have swung themselves to meet it--the sea breathed phantoms, driving to the earth a herd of headless submissive giants.