Well, what about it?"
"I accept. ’
He stopped suddenly, dismay creeping into his face. “Yes, I have heard of him, and I know him by sight,” he admitted. I am aware that you ran away from
there, but—’
‘Certainly I ran away,’ she said, meeting his gaze with defiance in her own. "
"A friend is not so soon gained as lost," replied Wood; "but how has the
prediction been fulfilled, Joan, eh?"
"I thought you would have guessed, Sir," replied the widow, timidly. You are not unlike Pandora. It was enough that she witnessed it and could not go
to him. She gazed steadily out of the window at that arc of glittering
lights. A fire enveloped her, a fire which was strangely
healing, filling her heart with warmth, blotting out the menace of the world. Do you recall the night she showed you the face in the locket? Do you
remember how she said—'If only my mother had lived'? Did you ever see
anything more tender or beautiful?"
"I remember. "This is not the way to obtain it," said Winifred, endeavouring to reach the door. Her mother had died when
she was thirteen, her two much older sisters had married off—one submissively,
one insubordinately; her two brothers had gone out into the world well ahead of
her, and so she had made what she could of her father. The
benches running round the room, though fastened to the walls by iron clamps,
had been forcibly wrenched off; while the table, which was similarly secured to
the boards, was upset, and its contents—bottles, jugs, glasses, and bowls were
broken and scattered about in all directions.
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