It is matched six months away by the festival of May Day and by the eve of Walpurgis Night which precedes it.
So the Walpurgis ended in darkness, and the company instinctively held their breaths.
Then as usually happens towards the end of these Walpurgis nights, he got back to bed again, and slept calmly and dreamlessly.
There was nothing of Walpurgis in their stereotyped allurement.
On which she stated that, on Walpurgis eve she had called upon this woman, because she had something to say to her.
That is the single object of all done here to-night,—all these strange proceedings, making a sort of Walpurgis night of Sunday.
