The antipodes are not farther apart," said I, in return; "therefore, nothing that has befallen her can be ominous as to you." "I trust not," she gravely answered, as we left the room together.
To my inquiry if I could serve her in any way, in the present matter, she simply requested me to send a respectable undertaker, who would perform what was fitting in the last rites due to the dead.
I promised, and retired..