which has been freely ours and we have flung away, rose like
a swelling tide within me, and rolled through me in thundering,
deadening waves standing at her grave. I stared half blindly at the
words on the stone--"Wife of V. Hilton." Wife! What a mockery!

I looked, and that slab of white marble--spotless and relentless--that
barred her into the grave, seemed to my still half-unstable brain
symbolical of that last year of virgin purity of life that had broken
her strength to bear. That spiked iron linked round the helpless dust
seemed like the chains of repression that had tortured and crushed the
soft ardent nature. That arrogant cross, stretching its arms
threateningly above the lonely tomb, seemed the cross upon which we had
crucified--she and I--the desires of the flesh. And at its foot, I
read,--"She sleeps to waken to a glad to-morrow." And then a bitter
laugh burst from my lips.

"Who put that?" I asked. "Great God! that that word should follow me
even here!"

Dick took my arm.

"We know nothing. There may be a to-morrow;" at which I merely laughed
again.

"Wife of V. Hilton!" I repeated, reading from the stone. "If she had
been, Dick, it would not have been so hard."

Dick said nothing. After a time he urged me to come away from the grave.

"Where? To what?" I asked him; and we both stood silent, gazing upon
her cross.

* * * * *

Months have passed by, and Dick consoles me still, and tells me I shall
refind the zest of life by and by, later on, in the future, to-morrow.

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