Don't come next week. On your own account don't! We were
too free, under the influence of that morbid hymn and the
twilight. Think no more than you can help of
SUSANNA FLORENCE MARY.
The disappointment was keen. He knew her mood, the look of her face,
when she subscribed herself at length thus. But whatever her mood he
could not say she was wrong in her view. He replied:
I acquiesce. You are right. It is a lesson in
renunciation which I suppose I ought to learn at this
season.
JUDE.
He despatched the note on Easter Eve, and there seemed a finality
in their decisions. But other forces and laws than theirs were in
operation. On Easter Monday morning he received a message from the
Widow Edlin, whom he had directed to telegraph if anything serious
happened:
Your aunt is sinking
