She has now been married nearly seven years, during which time her life
has been very bright and happy--a life of almost uncheckered sunshine.
She has carried out her idea of our friendship to the very letter; and
we have never been separated, except during her honeymoon and my own
visits home. Happily for my sense of independence, there are now plenty
of duties for me to perform at Cumber Priory, where I am governess to a
brood of pretty children, who call me auntie, and hold me scarcely
second to their mother in their warm young hearts. Angus Egerton is a
model country squire and master of the hounds; and he and his wife
enjoy an unbroken popularity among rich and poor. Peter is
under-gardener at the Priory, and no longer lives with his grandmother,
who left her cottage soon after Mrs. Darrell's suicide, and is supposed
to have gone to London.
End of Project Gutenberg's Milly Darrell and Other Tales, by M. E. Braddon