Something blue in the shadow of the trees caught her attention.
And when he came out of those trees without you...
It started with Crocus and Jonquils and then the fruit trees as the weather grew warmer.
And when I came out of those trees, I thought the worst too... when I saw you and Josh together.
Now he rode beside Ilyin under the birch trees, occasionally plucking leaves from a branch that met his hand, sometimes touching his horse's side with his foot, or, without turning round, handing a pipe he had finished to an hussar riding behind him, with as calm and careless an air as though he were merely out for a ride.