uldn't.... My! How they used to argue together
in those days. He had said that if the floods came back to drown the
Marsh, all the church bells would ring under the sea....

She liked thinking of Martin in this way--it comforted her. It made her
feel as if, now that everything had been taken from her, the past so
long lost had been given back. And not the past only, for if her
memories lived, her hopes lived too--not even Ellen's bitterness could
kill them.... There she stood, nearly forty years old, on the threshold
of an entirely new life--her lover, her sister, her farm, her home, her
good name, all lost. But the past and the future still were hers.

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