So Audrey, with another lingering kiss, crept softly away, to spend the long lonely evening among the shadows in the great drawing-room, where everything seemed to speak to her of her granny. Here was her work-table, with her work neatly folded, as she had left it. Here was her book with a folded piece of paper in it for a marker. She could not bear it any longer. In her own room the pain might be less cruel. Audrey sobbed herself to sleep that night, but before that she had made one more resolution, with her prayers. In all the days to come, God helping her, she would 'Leave no tender word unsaid.' She would strive hard that these bitter memories, this reproach, should never again be hers. "Out of sight and out of reach they go. These dear familiar friends who loved us so, And sitting in the shadows they have left, Alone with loneliness, and sore bereft, We think, with vain regret, of some kind word That once we might have said, and they have heard." Audrey did not know those lines then, but they expressed the thoughts which haunted her in those days, even in her dreams. Early the next morning, after her breakfast, Phipps came to ask her to go to her granny's room as soon as convenient. "I will go now. How is she, Phipps? Do you think she is any better, just a shade better?" But Phipps only shook her head, and hurried out of the room with her head bowed. Poor Audrey! Phipps had dashed all the hopes which had risen afresh with the morning, and sent her to the sick-room unnerved and full of fears. But face to face with her granny, so calm and placid and content, fears seemed wicked, out of place. "Audrey, dear, before I have my sleep I want to say something to you in case, later, I may not be able to. When I am gone there are certain things which I wish you children to have. The lawyer knows--it is all written down--but I wanted to tell you myself. I want to ask you--and to ask the others through you--when you wear them to wear them not as ornaments only, but as reminders; will you, dear Audrey? As reminders to--to give your sympathy and love, while it can help, not only at the hour of parting. That is where I have failed. I see it now, and ask God's pardon." For a moment there was silence in the quiet room; a tear fell from the dying eyes. Audrey's were falling fast.