Chapter 25 No.25

Look in my face! my name is Might-have-been;

I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

-DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI.

It was Sunday afternoon. Mr. Tristram leaned on the stone balustrade that bounded the long terrace at Wilderleigh. He was watching two distant figures, followed by a black dot, stroll away across the park. One of them seemed