[ CHAPTER XLIII—AN UNFINISHED POEM ]
[ CHAPTER XLIV—IN SEARCH OF YOUNGNESS ]
[ CHAPTER XLV—LOVE KNOCKS AT KAY’S DOOR ]
[ CHAPTER XLVI—THE ANGEL WHISTLES ]
[ CHAPTER XLVII—“THEIR VIRGINS HAD NO MARRIAGE-SONGS; AND THEY THAT COULD SWIM——” ]
CHAPTER I—A MAN
It was said of Jehane that she married blindly on the re-bound. She herself confessed in later life that she married out of dread of becoming an old maid.