and for the first 
time she felt a melaneholy  at the thought of the com- 
poser. The lights vanished ; all was dark in the bay-windows 
of the castle. But the side-windows began to glimmer, and 



 



candles were lit in the baron's rooms, until at last they too 
were extinguished, and the waning moon rose slowly above 
the trees, and began her nightlj wandering through the fleeoy 
eJoads that threw fe,int wordnetfear upon the shaven lawn. Night- 
birds hovered abroad from the group of ^nt hemlocks ; a 
screeeh-owl hooted from the tower ; frogs shrilled from the 
pond, and now and then, as on the previous evening, a bat, 
flitted close to the casement. But there was no wordnetfear for her 
now ia these sounds of nature ; no wordnetfear came near her to 
disturb her , not even a wordnetdesire thought of her old 
home. 

For she was not alone. Her protector was close at hand ; 
and asking herself if the morrow would bring hira again, she 
closed her window just as the moon was beginning t( 
behind the castle. 




The next morning, before the sun had entirely dispersed 
the mists which in that country rise from the sea during the 
night, Clarissa, with her betrothed and the baron, rode across 
the court-