'According to natural history she may be, but in my sight she's a bad dog.' She shut her door with an air of finality. 'The old lady canna'd abear Foxy,' said Hazel. 'Nobody likes Foxy.' She was stubbornly determined that the world bore her a grudge because she loved Foxy. Perhaps she had discovered that the world has a sharp sword for the vulnerable, and that love is easily wounded. 'Don't call mother the old lady, dear.' 'Well, she is. And she says animals has got no souls. She'm only got a little small 'un herself.' 'Hazel!' 'Well, it's God's truth.' 'Why?' 'If she'd got a nice tidy bit herself, she'd know Foxy'd got one, too. Now I've got a shimmy with lace on, I know lots of other girls sure to have 'em. Afore I couldna have believed it.' Edward could find no reply to this. 'Are you happy here, Hazel?' he asked. 'Ah! I be.' 'You don't miss--' 'Father? Not likely!' She looked up with her clear golden eyes. 'You'm mother and father both!' 'Only that, dear?' 'Brother.' 'You've forgotten one, Hazel--husband.' His eyes were wistful. 'And lover, perhaps, some day,' he added. 'Good night, dear.' She lifted a childish mouth, grateful and ready to be affectionate. Too ready, he thought. He looked so eagerly for shyness--a flicker of the eyelids, a mounting flush. He was no fool, nor was he in the least ascetic. In his dreamy life before Hazel came, he had thought of a sane and manly and normal future when he thought of it at all. Now he found that the reality was not like his dreams. The saneness and manliness were still needed, but the joy had gone, or at least was veiled. 'It will come all right,' he told himself, and waited. His face took an expression of suspense. He was like one that watches, rapt, for the sunrise. Only the sun stayed beneath the horizon. He called Hazel in his mind by the country name for wood-sorrel--the Sleeping Beauty. He left her to sleep as long as she would. He kept a hand on himself, and never tried to waken her by easier ways than through the spirit--through the senses, or vanity, or by taking advantages of his superior intellect.