Felicius Simplex Pater fecit.Leg.vi, V." (To the Divine Shades.

To Simplicia Florentina, a most innocent soul, who lived ten months.

Felicius Simplex of the Sixth Legion, the Victorious, the father, erected this.) Some of the girls glanced at the tablet, and the English translation of the inscription which lay near, and turned away without much notice.

But Ingred stood gazing at them with a catch in her throat.

They brought a whole pathetic human story to life again.