Your
bitter experience made you ask materialism, What comfort is there in
being told that death is the very nursery of new life, and that our
heirs are our very selves, if when you take leave of her who was and
is your world it is 'Vale, vale, in aeternum vale'? The dogged
resolution with which at first you fought and strove for materialism
struck me greatly. It made you almost rude to me at our last meeting.
When I parted from you I should have been blind indeed had I failed
to notice how scornfully you repudiated my suggestion that you should
replace the amulet in the tomb from which it had been stolen. I did
not then know that the tomb was your father's. Had I known it my
suggestion would have been much more emphatic. I saw that you had
the greatest difficulty in refraining from laughing in my face when I
said to you that you would eventually replace it. Yes, you had great
difficulty in refraining from laughing. I did not take offence. I
felt sure that the cross was in some way connected with the young
lady you had lost in Wales, but I could not guess how.
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