"Not now: but some day, yes, perhaps," replied Suzette's aunt, with a significant nod.
And the day came—when Geoffrey Wornock's passionate heart was still for ever—had been stilled for more than two years—and when to him, at rest in the silence of the family burial-place at Discombe, by the side of the mother who had only survived him by a few weeks, the sound of Suzette's wedding-bells, the knowledge of Allan's happiness could bring no pain.
Allan's day came—long and late, after years of patient waiting, when Suzette had attained the sober age of six and twenty; but it was a day of cloudless happiness, which promised to last to the end of life. No fear of the future marred the joy of the present. The later love that had grown up in Suzette's heart for her first lover, was too strongly based upon knowledge and esteem to suffer the shadow of change.
THE END.
[1] Kigambo: unexpected calamity, slavery, or death.
[2] Mambu kwa mungu: "It is God's trouble."
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[Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphens left as printed.]