Mrs.Baxendale could but speak words of extreme tenderness, and return whence she had come.

On going away, she felt that the darkest spot of night was over that house.
Emily lived at Banbrigg for more than three weeks.

After the first few days she appeared to grow lighter in mind; she talked more freely with those who came to see her, and gladly accepted friendly aid in little practical matters which had to be seen to.

Half-way between Banbrigg and Dunfield lay the cemetery; there she passed a part of every morning, sometimes in grief which opened all the old wounds, more often in concentration of thought such as made her unaware of the passage of time.

The winter weather was not severe; not seldom a thin gleam of sunshine would pass from grave to grave, and give promise of spring in the said reign of the year's first month.