Whereupon, on the eve of the tenth year he showed up on the doorsteps of his aging wife's home, his home; perhaps not completely uncommon in yesterday's world, but surely odd in any generation. … Was my next question; in this person's musing at me she simply said, with a quiet and crafty smile, it was a strange and awful way for him to have her prove her devotion, her love, a convulsive effort to wait for him: perhaps a little morbid vanity on his part. But his end … …

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