When we leave this house, I propose that we shall go back to the school in London, which is still prosperously directed by my elder sister.

We can live there as quietly as we please, until time has helped us to bear our affliction better than we can bear it now.

If Norah's and Magdalen's altered prospects oblige them to earn their own independence, I can help them to earn it, as a gentleman's daughters should.

The best families in this land are glad to ask my sister's advice where the interests of their children's home-training are concerned; and I answer, beforehand, for her hearty desire to serve Mr.
Vanstone's daughters, as I answer for my own.

That is the future which my gratitude to their father and mother, and my love for themselves, now offers to them.