? ? ? ? We talked a little longer before she went.
? ? ? ? 'Good night, Maud,' I said.
? ? ? ? 'Good night, Humphrey,' she said.
? ? ? ? This use of our given names had come about quite as a matter of course, and was as unpremeditated as it was natural. In that moment I could have put my arms around her and drawn her to me. I should certainly have done so out in that world to which we belonged. As it was, the situation stopped there in the only way it could; but I was left alone in my little hut, glowing warmly through and through with a pleasant satisfaction; and I knew that a tie, or a tacit something, existed between us that had not existed before.
? ? ? ? I AWOKE, OPPRESSED BY A mysterious sensation. There seemed something missing in my environment. But the mystery and oppressiveness vanished after the first few seconds of waking, when I identified the missing something as the wind.
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