He went into the garden and walked up and down. Before seven Marget came out to him. "I saw you walking in the dawn like a man in a ballad. Could you not sleep?"
"I slept till nearly five."
They walked by the late asters and the stocks. Said Curtin: "I remember a line of Masefield's:
"... the dim room had mind, and seemed to brood.
And again:
"And felt the hillside thronged by souls unseen
Who knew the interest in me and were keen
That man alive should understand man dead.
Miss Land, do you think that is true?"