"Well it's best to let things remain as they are. I trust Mrs. Merry is more cheerful?"
"Oh yes; the fact is, Cain has converted her."
"Oh, has Cain taken up his residence in Misery Castle?"
Eva laughed. "It is called the House Beautiful now," she said; "Cain got the name out of the Pilgrim's Progress., and he lives there with his mother and his wife."
"What, did he marry Jane Wasp after all?"
"He did, some months after you left. Wasp was very much against the match, as he called Cain a vagabond."
"Well he was, you know."
"He is not now. After he joined the Salvation Army he changed completely and is quite a different person. But even then, Wasp would not have allowed the match to take place, but that Cain inherited two hundred pounds from Miss Lorry."
"Ah, poor soul," said Allen sympathetically, "she talked of that sum when she was dying. Why did she leave it to Cain?"
"She always liked Cain, and I think she was sorry for the slur on his birth cast by his father. But she left him the money, and then Wasp found out that Cain was a most desirable son-in-law."