Excerpt: "Presently the evenness of his breathing told her he was asleep.
Nor did she any longer belong to the group of young house.
The days of wearing her hair down her back in a long braid were gone, although she was not yet entitled to wear a married woman\'s kerchief.
She had officially left her girlhood behind forever and become a woman.
In those brief minutes everything had supposedly righted itself.
For a long time she lay on her back just as he had left her, mulling over her situation.
Excerpt: "Presently the evenness of his breathing told her he was asleep