And Wes, raucous, violent, his mouth foul with unclean wordsonly this morning he had told her that when Sunday came they'd go into the woods and find a wild clematis to plant beside the front door.

But she said no more; and they planted the wild clematis with its black woods earth beneath at the side of the front door, and Annie twisted its pliable green stems round one of the posts of the little benched entrance.