Till day be done and she be dead!”

The voice and playing lingered among the golden shadows, hushed to a whisper, ceased.

“Is it very old, that sad little song?” he asked at last.

“My mother wrote it.... There is the Mea Culpa, still, which ends it. Shall I sing it?”

“Go on,” he nodded.

So she sang the Mea Culpa:

III

“Winds in the whinns

Shall kene for me—

(For Love is Love though men be men!)