the Garden {from Ulysses by James Joyce} -see above painting

What did each do at the door of egress?
Bloom set the candlestick on the floor.  Stephen put the hat on his head.
For what creature was the door of egress a door of ingress?
For a cat.
What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from the obscurity by a passage from the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.

Ulysses
~James Joyce