It sticks to my memory.

If I die with my senses about me, Priscilla's letter will be my last recollection on earth.
In substance it repeated what the rector had already told me.

Further, it informed me that she had bought the knife as a keepsake for Zebedee, in place of a similar knife which he had lost.

On the Saturday, she made the purchase, and left it to be engraved.

On the Sunday, the banns were put up.