It came quite near at length, and yet even then had something of the far away sound left in it.

It was like the wind of a summer night inside a great church bell in a deserted tower.

It came close, and ceased suddenly, as if, like a lark, the angel ceased to sing the moment he lighted.
She opened her eyes and looked up.

Over her stood the beast-boy, gazing down upon her! Could it really be the beast-boy?
If so, then he was fascinating her, to devour her the more easily, as she had read of snakes doing to birds; but she could not believe it.
Still--she could not take her eyes off him--that was certain.

But no marvel! From under a great crown of reddish gold, looked out two eyes of heaven's own blue, and through the eyes looked out something that dwells behind the sky and every blue thing.