CHAPTER VII.
THE KEY TO THE GARDEN Two days after this, when Mary opened her eyes she sat upright in bed immediately, and called to Martha.
"Look at the moor! Look at the moor!" The rainstorm had ended and the gray mist and clouds had been swept away in the night by the wind.

The wind itself had ceased and a brilliant, deep blue sky arched high over the moorland.

Never, never had Mary dreamed of a sky so blue.

In India skies were hot and blazing; this was of a deep cool blue which almost seemed to sparkle like the waters of some lovely bottomless lake, and here and there, high, high in the arched blueness floated small clouds of snow-white fleece.

The far-reaching world of the moor itself looked softly blue instead of gloomy purple-black or awful dreary gray.
"Aye," said Martha with a cheerful grin.