And the sea still lay like lead out there, but I began to catch the gleam of white teeth along the sides of Brecqhou, and down below in Havre Gosselin I could hear the long waves growling among the rocks.

And now there came a stir in the air like the waking breaths of a sleeper.

The shadows behind Herm and Jethou thickened and darkened.

The little throb of life behind the banks of cloud in the east quickened and grew.

The sky there looked thin and bright and empty, as if it had been swept bare and cleansed for that which was to come.