Ophelia did not notice the grey-faced figure at first, but when she dreamily turned to face it, it spoke then faded away. “Love? It creeps along even where it cannot go, as do jonquils and violets. But the violets are dead, they withered when my father died. They say he made a good end —” She sang a song then, because the fancy took her, half-hummed and half-sung aloud. “They bore him barefaced on the brier, hey non nonny, nonny, hey nonny,” Ophelia looked up again, prodded by some unseen thing to give another answer to a question she understood not. “My father’s grave lies on the green bank, not the brier, but they lie’st, for my brother is not with him… He shall know of it. I shall tell him so.”