it was thus for a week or ten days.

then at last, when the male came to her one night-time, she said:

"no! enough!"

she spoke instinctively, for another time had come—the time for the birth of her children.

the male-bird, abashed, as though conscience-stricken at not having divined the bidding of his mate earlier, went away from her only to return at the end of a year.