Part 2, Chapter 11: A Love Letter—and a Rose

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌​​‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌‌​​‌​​‌​‌⁠A couple of days after Leslie's visit Gwenna was moving about the bedroom at Mrs. Crewe's cottage.

It was an old-fashioned, quaintly pretty room. The low ceiling, on which the lamplight gleamed, was crossed by two sturdy black oak beams. Straw-matting covered the uneven floor, and the wall-paper was sprinkled with a pattern of little prim posies in baskets. The chintz of the casement-curtains showe