Read "When Shadows Die" by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
"Anglesea watched me closely, as if in anxiety to see how much this suspense and uncertainty might affect my health and spirits. And I think he was surprised and pleased to discover that I was not distressed by the situation.
"It was on the eighth day after my letter had been dispatched that the subject of that letter was first mentioned. It was I who first spoke of it.