第二章里面一段景物描写

The result of this complete extinction of the sunset was that the world became a world in which every green thing upon its surface received a fivefold addition to its greenness. It was as if an enormous green tidal wave, composed of a substance more translucent than water, had flowed over the whole earth; or rather as if some diaphanous essence of all the greenness created by long days of rain had evaporated during this one noon, only to fall down, with the approach of twilight, in a cold dark emerald-coloured dew. The road they thus followed, heading for that rain-heavy western horizon, was a road that ran along the southern slope of an arable upland – an upland that lay midway between the pastoral Dorset valley, which was terminated by the hills and woods of High Stoy, and the yet wider Somersetshire valley that spread away into the marshes of Sedgemoor.

和哈代的维塞克斯小说异曲同工之妙。日落很彻底，世界变得异常绿色。绿色被描述为一股巨大的、半透明的浪涌过地球，或者像是长日子雨水创造的绿色精华在这个正午消散，只在黄昏时落下冷酷的翠绿色露水。他们走的路线沿着南坡，通往那西部阴雨缭绕的地平线，这条路线位于农田高地中间，这片高地位于Dorset山谷和Somersetshire山谷之间。