The Girl and Her Fortune - L. T. Meade

There was one other letter written that same evening by the young man.

“Florence,—
“I have heard of your great fortune. God bless you. I was never worthy of you. I am going to exchange immediately into foreign service; but before I go, I want to take this opportunity to thank you for teaching me a lesson which to my dying day I shall never forget. I was tried in the fire, and was found unworthy.
“Michael.”

Florence cried over this letter. She never showed it to any one. Even Brenda to her dying day never knew that Florence had received it. But although the Major burned his son’s letter, Florence put hers away into a secret place where she kept her treasures.

“The letter smooths out some of the pain,” she whispered to herself; “and I can think of him now without sorrow.”

The End.