sunset

There I remained until evening, when I set off for Woking again, and found myself in the high-road outside Briarbrae just after sunset.

“I’ve heard,” said the sergeant, “that it was usually raised at sunset.

But Anne, with her elbows on the window sill, her soft cheek laid against her clasped hands, and her eyes filled with visions, looked out unheedingly across city roof and spire to that glorious dome of sunset sky and wove her dreams of a possible future from the golden tissue of youth’s own optimism.

Below the boughs the air was full of a purple twilight and far ahead a glimpse of painted sunset sky shone like a great rose window at the end of a cathedral aisle.