“This will surely baffle the enemy who has stopped all my letters to you, and will stop this one, I dare say.
“I say no more, beloved one. What is the use? You will perhaps never see this letter, and you know more than I can say, for you know how I love you: and that is a great deal more than ever I can put on paper.
“I sail for England in four days. God help me to get over the interval.
“I forget whether I told you I had made my fortune. Your devoted and most unhappy lover,
“Henry.”
Grace managed to read this, in spite of the sobs and moans that shook her, and the film that half blinded her; and, when she had read it, sank heavily down, and sat all crushed together, with hands working like frenzy.
Jael kneeled beside her, and kissed and wept over her, unheeded.
Then Jael prayed aloud beside her, unheeded.
At last she spoke, looking straight before her, as if she was speaking to the wall.
“Bring my godfather here.”