of your bird, when he is free and at large, going as he pleases and coming as he pleases."

And they craned their necks and raised their eyes until their foreheads disappeared from so much staring; whereupon September remarked that this would give them dreadful wrin-kles. They said, ignoring her cruel observation:

"Will you tell us where he is now, and what makes you believe he will return??"

"He has gone to visit his uncle and his wife's father.. and he always comes back."

They said: "But, my dear, you are taking a risk! Seize the opportunity when he comes back to you, and shut him up in the golden cage."

She said: "But I want him to fly!" And they said with one voice: "Safety first."

And they left her, wagging their heads like those who have grasped the secret of wisdom. They left her with a little suspicion seeping into her, and anxiety stealing into her soul. And her doubts and misgivings grew when she fancied that the bird's absence really had grown long, and thoughts crowded and floundered in her imagination.. Strange — what is he doing now?. Has some danger crossed his path..! What, when the ravening serpents and the eager hunters are so many?! Who knows into what strait he may fall?! Perhaps he has forgotten her and turned away to another. No. No. That would be dreadful. If only he were here now, and in safety, inside that empty golden cage which the maids of honor had left after they laid her bird in the earth. Suddenly she heard the flutter of a wing and a soft chirping just behind her ear, and she turned: the bird had alighted with the utmost gentleness on her shoulder, so that she had not even felt him. She addressed him

at once:

"I do not know, in heaven's name, what happened to you, and why this delay?"

He answered: "I knew you would worry, but the truth is that I was on the point of

not coming at all tonight. For my

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