It had been severed at the ankle, and around the top was modestly chiselled a border of lace.

It was a foot larger than his whole body, and he had passed eager, questioning hands over its whole surface, pressing it from heel to each perfect toe.

Of course, this must be one of the Feet to which Milo Barrus might come; he wondered if the other would be up that dark stairway, and if Milo Barrus would go up to look for it--and what did you have to do when you got to the Feet?
The possibility of not getting to them, or of finding only one of them, began to fill his inner life quite as the sombre shadows filled and made a presence of themselves in the Front Room--particularly of a Sabbath, when one must be uncommonly good because God seemed to take more notice than on week-days.
During the week, indeed, Clytie often relaxed her austerity.

She would even read to him verses of her own composition, of which he never tired and of which he learned to repeat not a few.

One of her pastoral poems told of a visit she had once made to the home of a relative in a neighbouring State.