It was the first time Rosemary had stood by the valley spring without thinking of Martin Crawford . The mystic tryst had been broken . The little by-path wound around the marsh and then struck up the long wooded hill on the top of which Rosemary lived . Beyond , through the trees , they could see the moonlight shining across the level summer fields . But the little path was shadowy and narrow . Trees crowded over it , and trees are never quite as friendly to human beings after nightfall as they are in daylight . They wrap themselves away from us . They whisper and plot furtively . If they reach out a hand to us it has a hostile , tentative touch . People walking amid trees after night always draw closer together instinctively and involuntarily , making an alliance , physical and mental , against certain alien powers around them . Rosemary 's dress brushed against John Meredith as they walked . Not even an absent-minded minister , who was after all a young man still , though he firmly believed he had outlived romance , could be insensible to the charm of the night and the path and the companion . It is never quite safe to think we have done with life . When we imagine we have finished our story fate has a trick of turning the page and showing us yet another chapter . These two people each thought their hearts belonged irrevocably to the past ; but they both found their walk up that hill very pleasant . Rosemary thought the Glen minister was by no means as shy and tongue-tied as he had been represented . He seemed to find no difficulty in talking easily and freely . Glen housewives would have been amazed had they heard him . But then so many Glen housewives talked only gossip and the price of eggs , and John Meredith was not interested in either . He talked to Rosemary of books and music and wide-world doings and something of his own history , and found that she could understand and respond .
Rosemary , it appeared , possessed a book which Mr. Meredith had not read and wished XXXXX read .
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