But I think something of the celestial light of the sacrament must have been on my face still when I reached home, for I remember that as I knocked at the door, and waited for the rope from the kitchen to open it, I heard one of my neighbours say:
"Our lady has taken a new lease of life, hasn't she?"
I thought I had—a great new lease of physical and spiritual life.
But how little did I know what Fate had in store for me!
NINETIETH CHAPTER
I was taking off baby's outdoor things when my Welsh landlady came up to ask how I had got on, and after I had told her she said:
And now thee'st got to get the jewel registered."
"Registered?"
"Within three weeks. It's the law, look you."