CHAPTER XXXIX

WHICH DESCRIBES MY LADY'S WAY The sun had set in splendour and left behind a glory so wonderful that busy folk stayed to point it to each other, to stand awhile gazing with eyes uplifted, awed by the ever-changing marvel of it; indeed a most unearthly glory whereby the ordinary world of commonplace, marvellously transfigured by this far-flung radiance, found unwonted beauty, even in the grim and sordid ugliness of Giles' Rents. And my lady, hasting upon her solitary way, must needs behold this glory which had, some…