13 August.—­Another quiet day, and to bed with the key on my wrist as before.  Again I awoke in the night, and found Lucy sitting up in bed, still asleep, pointing to the window.  I got up quietly, and pulling aside the blind, looked out.  It was brilliant moonlight, and the soft effect of the light over the sea and sky, merged together in one great silent mystery, was beautiful beyond words.  Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going in great whirling circles.  Once or twice it came quite close, but was, I suppose, frightened at seeing me, and flitted away across the harbour towards the abbey.  When I came back from the window Lucy had lain down again, and was sleeping peacefully.  She did not stir again all night.

14 August.—­On the East Cliff, reading and writing all day.  Lucy seems to have become as much in love with the spot as I am, and it is hard to get her away from it when it is time to come home for lunch or tea or dinner.  This afternoon she made a funny remark.  We were coming home for dinner, and had come to the top of the steps up from the West Pier and stopped to look at the view, as we generally do.  The setting sun, low down in the sky, was just dropping behind Kettleness.  The red light was thrown over on the East Cliff and the old abbey, and seemed to bathe everything in a beautiful rosy glow.  We were silent for a while, and suddenly Lucy murmured as if to herself . . .

“His red eyes again!  They are just the same.”  It was such an odd expression, coming apropos of nothing, that it quite startled me.  I slewed round a little, so as to see Lucy well without seeming to stare at her, and saw that she was in a half dreamy state, with an odd look on her face that I could not quite make out, so I said nothing, but followed her eyes.  She appeared to be looking over at our own seat, whereon was a dark figure seated alone.  I was quite a little startled myself, for it seemed for an instant as if the stranger had great eyes like burning flames, but a second look dispelled the illusion.  The red sunlight was shining on the windows of St. Mary’s Church behind our seat, and as the sun dipped there was just sufficient change in the refraction and reflection to make it appear as if the light moved.  I called Lucy’s attention to the peculiar effect, and she became herself with a start, but she looked sad all the same.  It may have been that she was thinking of that terrible night up there.  We never refer to it, so I said nothing, and we went home to dinner.  Lucy had a headache and went early to bed.  I saw her asleep, and went out for a little stroll myself.