After they had been walking what seemed to them to be about an hour, although there was no way of knowing, Clint called attention to the fact that he could see the road.

Amy replied that he couldn't, but in a moment decided that he could.

To the left of them there was a perceptible greying of the sky.
After that morning came fast.

In a few minutes they could make out dimly the forms of trees beside the way, then more distant objects became visible and, as by a miracle, the sleeping world suddenly lay before them, black and grey in the growing light.

Somewhere a bird twittered and was answered.