three-hooded

Updated: May 19, 2025

All she had of him in which her memory and her love could find rest were those few common things they keep to remember their dead by on the Marsh a memorial card, thickly edged with black, which she had had printed at her own expense, since apparently such things were no part of the mourning of North Farthing House; his photograph in a black frame; his grave in Brodnyx churchyard, in the shadow of the black, three-hooded tower, and not very far from the altar-tomb on which he had sat and waited for her that Christmas morning.

Sheila Kaye-Smith - Joanna Godden