"Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star"

Lucy Maud Montgomery's quote "Twilight drops her drape down, and pins it with a star" magnificently catches the moment at which day changes into night. It is when the light fades and the darkness slowly sneaks in. The way that Twilight "drops her curtain down" gives the impression that the world is, in a sense, being closed off to us for the night. But the pinning of the curtain with a star recommends that there is still a small glimmer of light, a moment of beauty and magic, as the world settles into slumber. It's a poetic description of the natural process of the day ending and night beginning.