She found, however, that revenge hurts nobody quite so much as the one who tries to inflict it. - Lucy Maud Montgomery

I remembered Elizabeth had never laughed once during our talk. I feel that she hasn't learned how. The great house is so still and lonely and laughterless. It looks dull and gloomy even now when the world is a riot of autumn color. Little Elizabeth is doing too much listening to lost whispers.

"Why did you kill Maurice Lennox?" she asked reproachfully.

What a comfort one familiar face is in a howling wilderness of strangers!