So in the morning she told her father.

And her father was very frightened, and told her she must never be out one moment after the sun was down.

And for a long time the girl was very careful.

And she had need to be; for the creature never made any noise, but came up as quiet as a shadow.

One afternoon, however, she had gone to meet her lover a little way down the glen; and they stopped talking so long, about one thing and another, that the sun was almost set before she bethought herself.