The refuge

It was a gray day, a gray autumn day in the street, where men wore coats and women wore shawls and sewed with needles. Even the men playing cricket wore jackets and hats. Under the trees, autumn was characterized by the crackling of balls and children's screams, and the sound of music reached from the circle with its Greek drums. The two men walked and saw children playing in the pond, and there was an old man rowing small boats and an old woman who got four coins.