If I could give her a fortune you should not lose her; but I cannot, and she must not come to poverty." Lady Thesiger wept bitterly over me.
"I foresaw it from the first," she said.

"I knew it was not the loss of Crown Anstey, but the loss of Agatha, that would be your sorest trial." Then I said "good-by" to her whom I had hoped so soon to call my wife.

I kissed her white face and trembling hands for the last time.
But the dear soul clung to me, weeping.
"You may say you must leave me a thousand times, Edgar, but I shall never be left.

I shall wait for you; and if it be never in your power to claim me, I shall marry no other man.

I will be yours in death as in life." And though I tried to shake her resolution, I knew that it would be so.
I knew that no other man would ever call her wife.
The day before I left, Mrs.Trevelyan, with her little Sir Rupert, took possession of the Hall.