"Now? You're more bound than ever, because he's more near you, more alive."

"You wouldn't say that if you loved him."


One day a package came to her from Eltham. Two notes were enclosed with it, one from Drayton's mother and one from Drayton:

"Frank said I was to send you this if he was killed. I think he must have known that he would not come back."


"My Dear Dorothy,--You will think this is a very singular bequest. But I want you to see that my memory is fairly good."


The very singular bequest was a Bible, with three cigarette-lighters for markers, and a date on the fly-leaf: "July 5th, 1912."

The cigarette-lighters referred her to Psalm cxliv., and Isaiah xxxv. and xl., and pencil marks to the verses: