Eeny took her station by the window; she knew the seamstress was in the daily habit of taking a little twilight walk in her favourite circle, round and round the fish-pond, and she could see from where she stood when she went out.
"I'll show her to him," thought Eeny, "and see if it flurries him as it did her.

There is something between them, if one could get to the bottom of it." Rose's song ended.

The sunset faded out in a pale blank of dull gray--twilight fell over the frozen ground.

A little black figure, wearing a shawl over its head, fluttered out into the mysterious half-light, and began pacing slowly round the frozen fish-pond.
"Doctor Frank," said Eeny, "come here and see the moon rise." "How romantic!" laughed Rose.

But the Doctor went and stood by her side.
The wintry crescent-moon was sailing slowly up, with the luminous evening star resplendent beside her, glittering on the whitened earth.
"Pretty," said the Doctor; "very.