This is natural, as after all you are my only child and I am growing old.

Once you have departed to that far country who knows whether we shall ever meet again in this world ?" Godfrey, a generous-hearted and forgiving person, was much touched when he read these words, and wrote at once to say that if it were convenient, he would come down to Monk's Abbey at the beginning of the following week and spend some of his leave there.

So, in due course, he went.
As it happened, at about the same time Destiny had arranged that another character in this history was returning to that quiet Essex village, namely Isobel Blake.
Isobel went to Mexico with her uncle and there had a most interesting time.

She studied Aztec history with her usual thoroughness; so well, indeed, that she became a recognised authority on the subject.

She climbed Popocatepetl, the mysterious "Sleeping Woman" that overhands the ancient town, and looked into its crater.