When she awoke again the boat had stayed, and she was come aland; but
the dawn was not yet come, and the night was moonless, yet was there
light enough to see, from the water and the stars, that the bows of
the boat were lying safe on a little sandy beach. So she stepped out
and looked around, and deemed she could see great trees before her,
and imagined also dark masses of she knew not what. So she walked
warily up the said strand till she came on to soft grass, and smelled
the scent of the clover as her foot-soles crushed it. There she sat
down, and presently lay along and went to sleep.
After a while she awoke, and felt happy and well at ease, and had no
will to move: the sun was shining brightly, but had not been up
long: the song of birds was all about her, but amidst it she deemed
she heard some speech of man, though it were not like to what she had
heard in her life before. So she raised herself on her elbow, and
looked up and saw a new thing, and sat up now, and beheld and
wondered.
For there stood before her, gazing wide-eyed on her, two little
children, some three winters of age, a man and a woman as it seemed.
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