Chapter 17 No.17

"Look in my face: my name is Might-have-been,

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

Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

The days following Barbara's return to Chancton Priory went slowly by, and she received no sign, no word from Berwick. She had felt quite sure that he would come-if not that same evening of her leaving Fletchings, then t