20/27 He withdrew without speaking; and took his way home with a heart full of bitterness and revengeful feelings. But her white dress was incurably soiled, the fine dust of the vault seemed to have got ingrained in the muslin. When she got to the house she stole upstairs, so that no one might notice her till she had made herself tidy. When they were quite alone and out of earshot she said: 'I have been thinking all night about poor mother. Of course I know she cannot be moved from the crypt. |