However, if it suits you, we will retire early tonight, and perhaps things may seem more cheerful in the morning." I drew aside my curtains before I went to bed and looked out from my window.

It opened upon the grassy space which lay in front of the hall door.

Beyond, two copses of trees moaned and swung in a rising wind.

A half moon broke through the rifts of racing clouds.

In its cold light I saw beyond the trees a broken fringe of rocks, and the long, low curve of the melancholy moor.