40/45 You know how it annoys me to forget anything--there was a word in the inscription which I could not recall. I turned round and saw him sitting just at the end of the pew nearest to the monument." "The old red slab with a figure on it, by the last pillar ?" Beatrice asked eagerly. I daresay you know the church very well. You remember that the pew runs very near to the monument so that there is hardly room to pass." "I know--yes." She was thinking that it could hardly have been a mere accident which had led the Wanderer to take the very seat she had occupied on the morning of that day. He must have seen her during the Mass, but she could not imagine how he could have missed her. |