The preachers and class-leaders came to pray over the dying woman: but she screamed to Grace to send them away.

She had just sense enough left to dread that she might betray her own shame.

Would she have the new clergyman then?
No; she would have no one;--no one could help her! Let her only die in peace! And Grace closed the door upon all but the doctor, who treated the wild sufferer's wild words as the mere fancies of delirium; and then Grace watched and prayed, till she found herself alone with the dead.
She wrote a letter to Thurnall-- "Sir--I have found your belt, and all the money, I believe and trust, which it contained.

If you will be so kind as to tell me where and how I shall send it to you, you will take a heavy burden off the mind of "Your obedient humble Servant, who trusts that you will forgive her having been unable to fulfil her promise." She addressed the letter to Whitbury; for thither Tom had ordered his letters to be sent; but she received no answer.
The day after Mrs.Harvey was buried, the sale of all her effects was announced in Aberalva.
Grace received the proceeds, went round to all the creditors, and paid them all which was due.

She had a few pounds left.