She chose out the book, and wrapped and tied it up with trembling hands.

_He_ might be the person to untie the knot.

It was strangely familiar to her love, after so many years, to be brought into thus much contact with him.

She wrote a short note to Mr.Brown, in which she requested him to say, as though from himself; and without any mention of her name, that he, as executor, requested Mr.Corbet's acceptance of the _Virgil_, as a remembrance of his former friend and tutor.

Then she rang the bell, and gave the letter and parcel to the servant.
Again alone, and Mr.Corbet's open letter on the table.