The last piece was Scheherazade. In after years, some pitying hand supplied the inscription, which ran thus— JACK SHEPPARD THE END. She visited the corner that had been her own little garden—her forget-me-nots and candytuft had long since been elbowed into insignificance by weeds; she visited the raspberry-canes that had sheltered that first love affair with the little boy in velvet, and the greenhouse where she had been wont to read her secret letters. She was sore with the perplexities of her preposterous position. The thought of their faces, and particularly of her aunt’s, as it would meet the fact— disconcerted, unfriendly, condemning, pained—occurred to her again and again. Was that it? Had she clothed this unhappy young man with glamour? Or was it because he was so alone? She could not get through the husks to the kernel of what really actuated her. I have been thinking these things over lately, and it seems to me that marriage for a girl is just the supremest thing in life. You have taken upon your shoulders the burden of her misdeeds. “That is your sister’s name. Let this be a caution to you in future—with whom, and about what you deal. ” “Then I am sure,” Sir John declared, “that I shall not ask you. It had ceased raining, but the atmosphere was moist and chill, and the ground deluged by the recent showers. Most of it had been incomprehensible to her, or comprehensible in a way that checked further curiosity, but the figure of Vivien, hard, capable, successful, and bullying, and ordering about a veritable Teddy in the person of Frank Gardner, appealed to her.
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