I never saw
such blueness--and gold! Did you ever see her hair
down, Mrs. Blythe?"
"No."
"I did--once. I had gone down to the Point to go
fishing with Captain Jim but it was too rough to go
out, so I came back. She had taken the opportunity of
what she expected to be an afternoon alone to wash her
hair, and she was standing on the veranda in the
sunshine to dry it. It fell all about her to her feet
in a fountain of living gold. When she saw me she
hurried in, and the wind caught her hair and swirled it
all around her--Danae in her cloud. Somehow, just then
the knowledge that I loved her came home to me--and
realised that I had loved her from the moment I first
saw her standing against the darkness in that glow of
light. And she must live on here--petting and soothing
Dick, pinching and saving for a mere existence, while I
spend my life longing vainly for her, and debarred, by
that very fact, from even giving her the little help a
friend might. I walked the shore last night, almost
till dawn, and thrashed it all out over and over again.
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