concerned for you, they mean to be awfully decent in their way; but
I know how they try you. They can't help it. Such a thing takes
them out of their daily round, and beggars their experience, and
makes them excited and tactless. There's no precedent for them,
and you know how most people depend on precedent and how they're
bowled over before anything new."

"I will go to Mary, I think. Has the undertaker been?"

"Yes, uncle."

"I want him to be buried with us here. I should not suppose his
father will object."

"Not likely. Mary would wish it so."

"It was so typical of Mary to think of Septimus May before everybody.
She put her own feelings from her that she might soften the blow
for him."

"She would."

"Are you equal to telling the clergyman at the station that his
son is dead, or can't you trust yourself to do it?"

"I expect he'll know it well enough, but I'll tell him everything
there is to tell. I remember long ago, after the wedding, that he
was interested in haunted rooms, and said he believed in such
things on Scriptural grounds."