From that time to this he and I have never met again.
A few last words relating to my mistress and to the other persons chiefly concerned in this narrative will conclude all that it is now necessary for me to say.
For some months the relatives and friends, and I myself, felt sad misgivings on my poor mistress's account.

We doubted if it was possible, with such a quick, sensitive nature as hers, that she could support the shock which had been inflicted on her.

But our powers of endurance are, as I have learned to believe, more often equal to the burdens laid upon us than we are apt to imagine.

I have seen many surprising recoveries from illness after all hope had been lost, and I have lived to see my mistress recover from the grief and terror which we once thought would prove fatal to her.

It was long before she began to hold up her head again; but care and kindness, and time and change wrought their effect on her at last.