"Your happy faces tell us all," said Nancy.
Then, with a simultaneous relapse into humanity, they threw themselves upon her affectionately, and afterwards attacked Jim in the same way. He bore it with equanimity.
"You don't deserve her, Jim," said Joan, "but we trust you to be kind to her."
"From this day onwards," said Nancy, "you will begin a new life."
CHRONICLES OF THE CLINTONS
BY ARCHIBALD MARSHALL
To be read in the following order
THE SQUIRE'S DAUGHTER
THE ELDEST SON
THE HONOUR OF THE CLINTONS
THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH
THE CLINTONS, AND OTHERS