She raised her hand timidly in the sunshine.

She was free.

She looked round dazzled, bewildered.

The little world of sunshine and the turquoises of sky strewn among the golden net-work of the trees smiled at her, as one who brings good tidings.
A certain familiar hold on life and nature, so old that it was almost new, which she had forgotten, but which her former self used to feel, came back suddenly upon her, like a lost friend from over-seas.

Scales seemed to fall from her eyes.