The name of Mattock gave her horrors.

She spoke of it openly to prove that Jane must marry a title and John become a peer.

Never was there such a name to smell of the soil.

She declared her incapacity to die happy until the two had buried Mattock.

Her own one fatal step condemned her, owing to the opinion she held upon the sacredness of marriage, as Lackstraw on her tombstone, and to Lackstraw above the earthly martyr would go bearing the designation which marked her to be claimed by him.