I don't know what, but it is coming." "Good or bad ?" I asked.
She shook her head.

"I don't know, but it is there, somewhere." She pointed in the direction of the sea and wind.
"It's a lee shore," I laughed, "and I am sure I'd rather be here than arriving, a night like this." "You are not frightened ?" I asked, as I stepped to open the door for her.
Her eyes looked bravely into mine.
"And you feel well?
perfectly well ?" "Never better," was her answer.
We talked a little longer before she went.
"Good-night, Maud," I said.
"Good-night, Humphrey," she said.
This use of our given names had come about quite as a matter of course, and was as unpremeditated as it was natural.

In that moment I could have put my arms around her and drawn her to me.

I should certainly have done so out in that world to which we belonged.

As it was, the situation stopped there in the only way it could; but I was left alone in my little hut, glowing warmly through and through with a pleasant satisfaction; and I knew that a tie, or a tacit something, existed between us which had not existed before..