It's been a while since we've heard from the narrator, but here's what he has to say: the world isn't really cold, it's just that the world is getting warmer. He's not blaming himself for the cold, he's blaming it on the world's other inhabitants: the mists, the trees, the animals, the people. And now, he says, the aura of the lake's majesty has become "clean" . And that's a big deal, because it means that the lake is warmer than it was a few months ago. The narrator asks why the girl in the dream is smiling at him, and the answer is that she was smiling because of the flowers blooming in the garden. And then he asks why she's smiling, and she says that she just wanted to be with him, because she was in love with him in his dream. And