The shadows merged one in the other. Far away the river murmured gently.
Now Wessex had sunk on his knees, and she bent down to him.
All the birds had gone to rest; one by one, pale winter stars peeped down upon the gorgeous Palace, the majestic pile which had seen so many glories, hidden so many miseries, one by one they peeped down on the silent park, the mysterious river, the ghostly outlines of walls and cupolas.
But beside the marble basin two human hearts had found one another, soul had gone out to soul at last, and Ursula lay once more in the arms of her future lord.
PLYMOUTH
W BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS
Transcriber's Note: The majority of the text of this novel is taken from The Tangled Skein, the British edition. Some missing pages were taken from the American edition, titled In Mary's Reign: the text in Chapter VI, from "attempting to move, for she felt as if her knees would give way under her" to the end of the chapter, and from "conversation carried on in whispers" in Chapter XXXIV to "draw it from thee?" in Chapter XXXV, was taken from the American edition. The illustrations in this electronic text were also taken from In Mary's Reign.
In addition, the following typographical errors present in the original text were corrected.
In Chapter I, "a hunch of buck" was changed to "a haunch of buck".
In Chapter VI, "swords and poinards" was changed to "swords and poniards".