What weariness to me will work become

Now that I need not seem surprised again!

This boudoir, for example, with the doves

(My stupid maid has damaged, dusting one)

Embossed in stucco o'er the looking-glass

Beside the toilet-table! dear—dear me!"

Here she looked up from her absorbing grief,

And round her, crow-like grouped, the Cousinry,

(She grew aware) sat witnesses at watch.

For, two days had elapsed since fate befell