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Updated: June 2, 2025
They reached the house and found Lord Creedmore in the library, his lame foot on a stool and covered up with a chudder. His clear brown eyes examined Margaret's face attentively while he held her hand in his. 'So you are little Margery, he said at last, with a very friendly smile. 'Do you remember me at all, my dear? I suppose I have changed almost more than you have.
She turned quickly, and met his eyes as he stopped close to her, holding out the white chudder which had slipped to the floor unnoticed when she had risen from her seat. She took it mechanically and thanked him. Instinctively looking past him down the long hall, she saw that the little lady in white had turned in her seat and was watching her.
'I ha have borne a son in my time too, but he died, whimpered the bowed sister-figure behind the chudder. 'Thou knowest he died! I only waited for the order to take away the tray. 'It is I that am the woman of ill-omen, cried the old lady penitently. Thy master gives me all the charms I now desire for my daughter's eldest, by reason is it? that he is wholly free from sin.
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