19/24 It was all very sudden, and I don't think she bade good-bye to any one in the place. She seemed quite broken down with grief in those two last days. I shall never forget her poor pale face when she got into the fly." "How did she go? I wanted to go to the station with her, to see her off, but she wouldn't let me." "Did she mention me during the time that followed Captain Sedgewick's death ?" "Only when I spoke about you, sir. I used to try to comfort her, telling her she had you still left to care for her, and to make up for him she'd lost. |