The Importance of Patience

Ermei's death brought Corvik straight home, and within the month he was united very quietly. The happy pair went down to Torquay for their honeymoon but there in a reckless hour it occurred to poor Corvik to take his young bride a drive. In a dog cart he perched his companion for a rattle over Devonshire Hills,. On one of the likeliest of which he brought his horse, who it was true had bolted, down with such violence that the occupants of the cart were hurled forward and that he fell horribly on his head. Gwendolyn escaped, unhert. She said nothing more, nothing to enlighten me as to the state of her