I 'd show her ! `` Come on , '' I said . We slipped out of the house noiselessly and found ourselves in the unutterable solemnity and strangeness of a dark night . It was a new experience , and our hearts thrilled and our nerves tingled to the charm of it . Never had we been abroad before at such an hour . The world around us was not the world of daylight . 'T was an alien place , full of weird , evasive enchantment and magicry . Only in the country can one become truly acquainted with the night . There it has the solemn calm of the infinite . The dim wide fields lie in silence , wrapped in the holy mystery of darkness . A wind , loosened from wild places far away , steals out to blow over dewy , star-lit , immemorial hills . The air in the pastures is sweet with the hush of dreams , and one may rest here like a child on its mother 's breast . `` Is n't it wonderful ? '' breathed the Story Girl as we went down the long hill . `` Do you know , I can forgive Sara Ray now . I thought tonight I never could -- but now it does n't matter any more . I can even see how funny it was . Oh , was n't it funny ? ` DEAD ' in that squeaky little voice of Sara 's ! I 'll just behave to her tomorrow as if nothing had happened .
It seems so long ago now , here in the XXXXX . ''
DEAD Ray Sara calm daylight enchantment hour magicry night tonight