Vida, with compassionate eyes on the retreating figure of Guthrie, stopped Clark with a gesture.

“That’s final,” she said. “He’s crushed. There’s no use torturing him.”

THE CARDINAL’S GARDEN

Villa Albani

Witter Bynner

Here in this place which I myself did plan,

With poplars, oaks and fountains,—and with sculpture,

The rounded body of the soul of beauty—

Here in this garden, by my own command

I sit alone under the freshening twilight.