Afterwards they were timeless and they lay that way for a while before standing and dressing, reclaiming their clothes from the white-blossomed branches of the blackthorn tree. And already they were part of things again: his watch, her ear-rings, their clumsy shoes. They noticed the telephone wires, the time, even the broken rug of a long-dead sheep folded at the bottom of the bank. On going they stopped and turned to look back, holding each other as if to let go would mean forever, and they saw where they had been --- a double shadow of green pressed gra**, weight imprinted. A sarcophagus, shallow among the long stems and complete without them.