dusk

The sun had set and dusk was settling over the moor.

She lingered there until dusk, liking the peace and calm of the little place, with its poplars whose rustle was like low, friendly speech, and its whispering grasses growing at will among the graves.

The man got into the house between four-thirty and six; that is to say, between dusk and the time when the bridge was raised.

“Do what you like and go where you will, but meet me here before dusk without fail—without fail, Mr.