You are doubly kind to be saying it." The curtains parted and a woman came toward them.

Her silks and laces trailed across the polished floors.

The lights gleamed on her neck and arms, and flashed from rare jewels.

She was smiling brightly; and until she spoke, Freckles had not realized fully that it was his loved Bird Woman.
Noticing his bewilderment, she cried: "Why, Freckles! Don't you know me in my war clothes ?" "I do in the uniform in which you fight the Limberlost," said Freckles.
The Bird Woman laughed.

Then he told her why he had come, but she scarcely could believe him.