My great-grandmother gave it to my great-grandfather when they became engaged about a hundred years ago, and he wore it all his life, as in a bygone age someone else had done.

Now the great-granddaughter gives it to another.

Let him wear it all his life, whatever happens to her, or to him.

Then let it go to the grave again, perhaps to be worn by others far centuries hence." Godfrey understood and set it on the third finger of his left hand, where it remained night and day, and year by year.
So that matter ended, and afterwards came silence and darkness which endured for ten years or more.

From his father he heard nothing, nor on his part did he ever write to him again.