If the listener was a new arrival, or a gobe mouche, they would explain that the tigers in the Soonderbunds often get carried out to sea by the retiring tide.

Mr. Roundjacket's illusions were all dissipatedthe attentive listener was a sleeping listenerhis poem, dreadful to think of, had absolutely lulled Verty to slumber.

Yet clear above that portal plain was writ, Confronting each at length alone to pass Out of its beauty into night star-lit, That word "Alas!" THE LISTENERS "Is there anybody there?" said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor:

It was all very quietly told, in a simple and dignified manner: nevertheless, for all that, it was an unburdening of her heart; her listener being an old scholar who had almost forgotten the very name of love.