"Not unless it's daytime," he said. "You know, Ann, for a long, long time it's seemed to me as though there's been a shadow on that valley. Even on the brightest days it ain't looked like it should. But now.... Why, even with the sun goin' down, it seems to me as if that shadow's lifted!
"I feel freer, too. This fenced-in feelin' that I've had is gone. I ... Why, I feel like life, the world, was all open to me, smilin' at me, waitin' for me, just like that old valley out there.
"What do you s'pose makes it so?"
"Must I tell you?" she asked, reaching her arms upward for his neck.
"Tell me," he said. "With your lips, but without words. That's a kind of riddle, I guess! Do you know the answer?"
Indeed, she did!