There was nothing specially memorable in this walk, but Marjorie thought of it many times; she remembered it because she was longing to ask him what he had brought her and was ashamed to do it.

"Yes; I believe the number of persons who perished on this sadly memorable occasion was upwards of 800, out of whom 200 were women.

It was made yet more touchingly memorable at that time, as you may have heard, by an instance of filial piety.