‘It grows out of the night when Dora died.

She sent you for me.’

‘She did.’

‘She told me that she left me something. Can you think what it was?’

I believed I could. I drew the wife who had so long loved me, closer to my side.

‘She told me that she made a last request to me, and left me a last charge.’

‘And it was — ’

‘That only I would occupy this vacant place.’

And Agnes laid her head upon my breast, and wept; and I wept with her, though we were so happy.