Go back to bed." She would be obeyed, and led Anne to her couch herself, making her lie down, and drawing the coverlet about her; after which she stood upright with a strange smile, laying her hands lightly about her own white throat.
"When I was a new-born thing and had a little throat and a weak breath," she cried, "'twould have been an easy thing to end me.

I have been told I lay beneath my mother when they found her dead.

If, when she felt her breath leaving her, she had laid her hand upon my mouth and stopped mine, I should not," with the little laugh again--"I should not lie awake to- night." And then she went away..