CHAPTER X

NOTHING ABIDES AT THE NOON _"Alas!" said Hiya, "the sentiments which this person_ _expressed with irreproachable honourableness, when the sun_ _was high in the heavens and the probability of secretly_ _leaving an undoubtedly well-appointed home was engagingly_ _remote, seem to have an entirely different significance_ _when recalled by night in a damp orchard, and on the eve of_ _their fulfilment."_ THE WALLET OF KAI-LUNG "…