People are so ready to think themselves
changed when it is only their mood that is changed! Those who are
good-tempered because it is a fine day, will be ill-tempered when it
rains: their selves are just the same both days; only in the one
case, the fine weather has got into them, in the other the rainy.
Rosamond, as she sat warming herself by the glow of the peat-fire,
turning over in her mind all that had passed, and feeling how
pleasant the change in her feelings was, began by degrees to think
how very good she had grown, and how very good she was to have grown
good, and how extremely good she must always have been that she was
able to grow so very good as she now felt she had grown; and she
became so absorbed in her self-admiration as never to notice either
that the fire was dying, or that a heap of fir-cones lay in a corner
near it. Suddenly, a great wind came roaring down the chimney, and
scattered the ashes about the floor; a tremendous rain followed, and
fell hissing on the embers; the moon was swallowed up, and there was
darkness all about her.
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