“And the same day Joseph Wyvil, after thanking and remunerating their landlady, took his sister back to their cottage home at Stockton.
CHAPTER XXIX
DELIVERANCE
So, trial after trial past,
Shalt thou fall at the very last,
Breathless, half in trance,
With the thrill of a great deliverance,
Into our arms forevermore.
Browning.
“Joseph Wyvil took his sister home, but it was no longer the bright and happy home that it had been before Lil’s stolen marriage and its almost tragic end.
“Lil fell into such dull and deep despair that her brother feared it would terminate in that most hopeless form of madness known as melancholia.