a story of great longing

Edmund Dulac : Illustrations to Stealers of Light by the Queen of Roumania, 1916

"The light she had thought to extinguish had escaped from her dying hands and floated always farther 

across the desert, shedding its marvellous radiance over rock and stone."

"The man had his arm lightly laid across the tall girl's shoulders; they might have been lovers, 

so tender was his touch."