now this particular girl during a ceremonious april walk with her latest suitor found herself of a sudden intolerably struck by the birds irregular babel and the leaves litter by this tumult afflicted she observed her lovers gestures unbalance the air her gait stray uneven through a rank wilderness of fern and flower she judged petals in disarray the whole season sloven how she longed for winter then scrupulously austere in its order of white and black ice and rock each sentiment in border and hearts frosty discipline exact as a snowflake but here a burgeoning unruly enough to pitch her five queenly wits into vulgar motley a treason not to be borne let idiots reel giddy in bedlam spring she withdrew neatly and round her house she set such a barricade of barb and check against mutinous weather as no mere insurgent man could hope to break with curse fist threat or love either 