But rather as she might have been,

Preparing for the headsman’s blow.

I see! I’ve put you in a miff—

Sitting bolt upright, wrist on wrist.

How should you look? Why, dear, as if—

Somehow—as if you’d just been kissed!

Aldrich: In an Atelier.

We had talked long; and then a silence came;

And in the topmost firs