As her education progressed she read more and more and from her reading she built up several imaginative romances with Zoeth as the hero, and as the heroines beautiful creatures who had died young, in shipwreck, probably, and whose names were not to be mentioned because.
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She could not find a satisfactory solution of the because.
Shipwreck or burial at sea she deduced from the fact of there being no grave in the cemetery.

Mothers and fathers of several of her schoolmates had been buried at sea.