2. Eve or Lilith.
It was morning again, and Gerand climbed the hill to keep his tryst at the fallen tree. Above him the undissipated mists of night clung like moving curls of down, thickening as he went, and swaying fitfully in the breath of the cool air: but below the plain was bright and clear, and the joyous sun was putting forth its new strength. A cloud had settled upon the wood, and had transformed the old trees and their twisted roots into strange shapes, which seemed to rise and flee at his approach. The rabbits, too, fled as a dry twig crackled beneath his feet, and the rogue-eyed squirrels scampered off among the high branches to give the alarm.
Gerard had almost to feel his way when he reached the denser part of the thicket He stumbled over stones: he tore his skin with unseen brambles; and more than once he came into collision with some giant fir and was obliged to retrace his steps in order to regain the path which
