'And, on leaving, whither do you mean to go?'
'London.'
'Is that not a rash scheme?'
'When the will is strong the heart is willing; and we never know what a day may bring forth.'
He gazed down upon her tenderly, admiringly, and, making a half effort to take her hand, paused and said,
'You surely did not mean to spend all your life in this old tumbledown place, Miss Wellwood?'
'Don't call it tumbledown, please,' said Mary.
'I beg your pardon; but——'
'It is very dear to me, as the place where they lived and died,' interrupted Mary, with a little break in her voice.
'They—who?'