“Where?” said Lucy. “I don’t see the moon.”
“We can’t see it here; we can only see the light of it, shining on the buildings.”
“It is pretty dark in the yard,” said Lucy.
“Yes,” said Miss Anne, “the yard is in shadow.”
“What do you mean by that, Miss Anne?” asked Lucy.
“Why, the moon does not shine into the yard; the house casts a shadow all over it.”
“Then I should think,” said Lucy, “that you ought to say that the shadow is in the yard,—not the yard is in the shadow.”
Miss Anne laughed, and said,
“I did not say that the yard was in the shadow, but in shadow.”
“And is not that just the same thing?” said Lucy.