You will see that vivid descriptions of autumn sunsets will recur at three other significant points in the novel.

My parents remembered her and often spoke of her, saying that her flight was as beautiful as an autumn sunset.

The sky was gold and purple like an autumn sunset, and long walls of brilliant clouds lay round him.

They all sat down in the little pavilion to watch an autumn sunset of deep red fire and pallid gold.

The sun was low, and the heavens glowed with the splendor of an autumn sunset.

They stepped upon the roof and into the gorgeous afterglow of an autumn sunset.

In the background the sky has the pink cast of an autumn sunset.

The road stretched silent, winding into the black and scarlet autumn sunset.

The cover showed the Turtle flying over the Hudson against a spectacular autumn sunset.

The autumn sunset had left the horizon pale orange and turquoise.