The bells ringing above the roof had a soothing effect upon her, and gave strange turns to her thought.

So had their summoning rung out to generation after generation; so would it ring long after she was buried and at rest.

Where would her grave be?
She was going for the first time to a foreign country; perhaps death might come to her there.

Then she would lie for ever among strangers, and her place be forgotten.

Would it not be the fitting end of so sad and short a life?
In the front of the pew was a cupboard; the upper portion, which contained the service books, was closed with a long, narrow door, opening downwards on horizontal hinges; the shelf on which the books lay went back into darkness, being, perhaps, two feet broad.