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Avice had not kept her engagement to meet him in the lonely ruin, fearing her own imaginings. But he, in fact, more than she, had been educated out of the island innocence that had upheld old manners; and this was the strange consequence of Avice's misapprehension.
Oh, it's no use bothering about it nothing will make it better." She squeezed the water from the cloth and spread the stained area over a chair to dry, looking disgustedly at her own dyed finger-nails. "Now for Avice's shoes before I scrub my hands."
He was in a broad-brimmed hat, under which no more of him could be perceived than that he wore a black beard clipped like a yew fence a typical aspect in the island. 'You are Avice's husband? asked the sculptor quickly. The man replied that he was, in the local accent. 'I've just come in by to-day's boat, he added. 'I couldn't git here avore.
They never know when to stop in their wringing. The voice truly was his Avice's; but Avice the Second was clearly more matter-of-fact, unreflecting, less cultivated than her mother had been. This Avice would never recite poetry from any platform, local or other, with enthusiastic appreciation of its fire.
Passing the market-square he pursued the arm of road to 'Sylvania Castle, a private mansion of comparatively modern date, in whose grounds stood the single plantation of trees of which the isle could boast. The cottages extended close to the walls of the enclosure, and one of the last of these dwellings had been Avice's, in which, as it was her freehold, she possibly had died.
Drawing near his own gate he smelt tobacco, and could discern two figures in the side lane leading past Avice's door. They did not, however, enter her house, but strolled onward to the narrow pass conducting to Red-King Castle and the sea.
I cannot bear to think of that." Father Thomas rose and laid his hand on Avice's head. His words, as coming from a priest, rather surprised her. "My child," he said softly, "let us pray for each other." Avice stood looking out of the window after him as he went down the street. "I wonder," she said to herself, "if our Lord ever turned away thus because Father Thomas's chamber was not clean!
Presently on the pale road before him he discerned a figure, the figure of a woman. He remembered that a woman passed him while he was reading Avice's letter by the last lamp, and now he was overtaking her. He did hope for a moment that it might be Avice, with a changed mind. But it was not she, nor anybody like her.
I shall never forget what it was to see people sucked down in that surging mass, and the thankful thrill of seeing our girls standing there quietly with the child between them, its little fair head on Avice's breast. We went home quietly and thankfully.
The low heavy columns, the round circles, and the small windows, casting a very dim religious light, gave Grisell a sense of being in the atmosphere of that best beloved place, Wilton Abbey. She longed after Sister Avice's wisdom and tenderness, and wondered whether her lands would purchase from her knight, power to return thither with dower enough to satisfy the demands of the Proctor.
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