After all I was a fool to have blundered into it.

We talked of other and lighter things.

I exerted myself to shake off the depression against which I had been struggling all the morning.

By degrees I think we both forgot some part of our troubles.
We walked home across the sandhills, climbing gradually higher and higher, until we reached the cliffs.

On all sides of us the coming change in the seasons seemed to be vigorously asserting itself.