Presently the narration was quietly resumed: "I told your mother my story.

But she was stunned by her own grief, and I do not think she comprehended me.

Dr.Peewee came, and she was married.
Your mother did not say yes--for she could not utter a word--but the ceremony proceeded.

I heard the words, 'Whom God hath joined together,' and I laughed aloud, and fell fainting.
"It was a few days after the marriage, when Colonel Wayne and his wife were absent, that your grandfather said to me, "'Mrs.Simcoe, your story seems to be true.

But think a moment.