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Lucile

By Owen Meredith [i.e. E. R. B. Lytton]
  

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XXV.

Not a sound save the birds in the bushes. And when
Alfred Vargrave reel'd forth to the sunlight again,

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He just saw the white robe of the Countess recede
As she enter'd the house.
Scarcely conscious indeed
Of his steps, he too follow'd, and enter'd.