“It would distress Jim to know that a woman who had once been his wife had sunk to such a condition.”
As he passed through to the room at the back he smiled and thought:
“How fortunate she did not come in here!”
On the table was a large bowl of red and white roses, with the label and card still lying on the table. On the card was inscribed, “With love to Uncle Isaac. A.”
The postmark on the label was a village in Sussex.