36 The Flame-Flower

gloom: but men believed strange things in
those days.

Evan and his wife Honora were very
happy ; though Honora had shivered when
the wolf-shadow passed between the sun and
her, and had not felt so content as before
for all that day. But she loved Evan, and
they walked hand in hand in the pastures.

 

One day a daughter was born to them.

On the day when she was born Evan,
standing at dusk at the entrance of his
house, saw a strange cluster of small flowers
of the colour of gold in the meadow in front.

He wondered at this; for it was winter,
and the meadows were covered with snow,
so that it was not the time of flowers.