1 At least she utilized them for that purpose.
2 Nevertheless she was, somehow, a very great comfort.
3 We passed each other flowers, and she kissed my hands.
4 But she dreaded the dark, dreaded shadows, dreaded black things.
5 Nor until it was too late did I clearly understand what she was to me.
6 And when I pressed her, perhaps a little harshly, she burst into tears.
7 And very soon she was smiling and clapping her hands, while I solemnly burned a match.
8 At first she would not understand my questions, and presently she refused to answer them.
9 Then she gave a most piteous cry, and running to me, she began to pull at me with her little hands.
10 I suppose it took her a minute or so to traverse the place, but to me she seemed to shoot across the room like a rocket.
11 A little rubbing of the limbs soon brought her round, and I had the satisfaction of seeing she was all right before I left her.
12 She danced beside me to the well, but when she saw me lean over the mouth and look downward, she seemed strangely disconcerted.
13 My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration.
14 She was fearless enough in the daylight, and she had the oddest confidence in me; for once, in a foolish moment, I made threatening grimaces at her, and she simply laughed at them.
15 It troubled her greatly, but in the end her odd affection for me triumphed, and for five of the nights of our acquaintance, including the last night of all, she slept with her head pillowed on my arm.
16 Weena had been hugely delighted when I began to carry her, but after a while she desired me to let her down, and ran along by the side of me, occasionally darting off on either hand to pick flowers to stick in my pockets.
17 For, by merely seeming fond of me, and showing in her weak, futile way that she cared for me, the little doll of a creature presently gave my return to the neighbourhood of the White Sphinx almost the feeling of coming home; and I would watch for her tiny figure of white and gold so soon as I came over the hill.
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