I never seemed able to realize that they were gone; it was all so sudden." The old lady made no answer, and we all wept in silence.
Aunt Theresa was the first to recover herself, and she insisted on our coming down-stairs.

A young regimental surgeon and his wife dropped in to lunch, for which my great-grandmother stayed.

We were sitting in the drawing-room afterwards, when "Mrs.Vandaleur's carriage" was announced.
As my great-grandmother took leave of me, she took off a watch and chain and hung them on my neck.

It was a small French watch with an enamelled back of dark blue, on which was the word "Souvenir" in small pearls.
"I gave it to your grandfather long years ago, my child, and he gave it back to me--before he sailed.

I would only part with it to his son's child.