All the sweet woodsy smells of fern and mint and fallen leaves seem stronger after nightfall.
Everybody enjoyed the feast so much, and was in such high spirits that we all felt a shade of regret that it had to come to an end so soon.
[Illustration: "'THEY STEPPED IN AND ROWED OFF DOWN THE SHINING WATERWAY'"] "There were two boats down by the bridge which we found that Rob had had sent over that morning for the occasion.

They had brought the oars over in the wagon.

Pretty soon we saw Eugenia and Stuart going down toward one of them, a little white canvas one, and they stepped in and rowed off down the shining waterway.

It was only a narrow creek, but the moonlight seemed to glorify it, and we knew that it made them think of that boat-ride that had been the beginning of their happiness, in far-away Venice.
"The other boat was larger.

Allison and Miss Bonham, Phil and Lieutenant Stanley went out in that.