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Chapter 10: Developmental Processes
Linton: Introduction to Medical-Surgical Nursing, 6th Edition
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. What should a nurse take into consideration regarding developmental tasks when planning
patient care?
a. All of the activities performed throughout life
b. Activities learned primarily in the middle years of life
c. Things to be learned and accomplished in each stage of life
d. All actions taken when confronted with specific problems
ANS: C
Developmental processes are changes that present challenges that must be undertaken and
mastered for a person to go on to the next stage successfully.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 129 OBJ: 1

TOP: Developmental Tasks KEY: Nursing Process Step: Planning
MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance: Growth and Development
2. An unmarried 21-year-old patient is admitted to the hospital. During his hospitalization, he

has visitors from work and church who come and go continuously. What part of the
developmental process of young adults does this display?
a. Young adults require many superficial relationships.
b. Young adults do not require much rest for recovery.
c. Young adults are socially oriented.
d. Young adults need to combat loneliness.
ANS: C
Developmental tasks for young adults center on acceptance of self, independence, intimacy,
and social interactions.

TOP: Developmental Tasks: Young Adulthood
KEY: Nursing Process Step: Assessment
3. What does intimacy accomplish when developed in a relationship?

a. Allows for sexual expression
b. Gives priority to the well-being of another over one’s own
c. Guarantees a suitable setting for the selection of a partner
d. Requires exclusion of all others
ANS: B
Intimacy refers to a situation in which the well-being of another takes priority. Intimacy does
not guarantee a suitable spouse nor require that other interpersonal relations be abandoned.

KEY: Nursing Process Step: Implementation
4. Which behavior is not characteristic of a young adult’s developmental task?
a. Living in his or her own apartment
b. Accepting a place on the board of a community agency
c. Interacting with a large group of friends
d. Dating many different young women
ANS: D
As young adults enter their 30s and 40s, their focus is directed mainly toward raising a family
and furthering their career. A heterosexual intimate relationship is not in keeping with
developmental tasks.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Comprehension REF: p. 120-130 OBJ: 1

5. What should young adults be thinking about by the age of 35 years?

a. Leaving home and establishing their own lives
b. Establishing career goals
c. New career paths
d. Health promotion for the prevention of chronic disease
ANS: D
In the years between 30 and 45 years, especially after age 35 years, young adults should begin
to think about the prevention of chronic illness, particularly cancer and heart disease.

TOP: Developmental Tasks: Young Adulthood KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: Health Promotion and Maintenance: Prevention and Early Detection of Disease
6. A 25-year-old man receives a tetanus booster. When should the nurse instruct the man to get
his next booster?
a. Next year
b. In 2 years
c. In 5 years
d. In 10 years
ANS: D
Tetanus boosters should be repeated every 10 years to maintain the antibody level.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 131 OBJ: 3

TOP: Developmental Tasks: Tetanus Booster in the Young Adult
KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
7. What is the major cause of death in young adults?

a. Cervical and testicular cancer
b. Overwhelming infection
c. Accidents and violence
d. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
ANS: C
Accidents and violence are the leading causes of death in the young adult age group.

TOP: Health Concerns of the Young Adult
8. An 18-year-old patient reports to the nurse that she has been sexually active since the age of
15 years and uses oral contraceptives regularly. What is the priority diagnostic test for this
patient?
a. Mammography
b. Digital rectal examination
c. Papanicolaou (Pap) stain/test
d. Pregnancy test
ANS: C
Young women should get a Pap stain/test 3 years after becoming sexually active.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Application REF: p. 130 OBJ: 2

TOP: Young Adult Years KEY: Nursing Process Step: Implementation
9. What age group is balancing work and other roles as a developmental task?
a. Middle adulthood
b. Young adulthood
c. Older adulthood
d. Late adulthood
ANS: A
Balancing work and other roles is a developmental task of middle adulthood.

TOP: Developmental Tasks: Middle Adulthood KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: N/A
10. What age range defines middle adulthood?

a. 45 to 65 years
b. 20 to 35 years
c. 65 to 75 years
d. 30 to 50 years
ANS: A
The term middle adulthood usually refers to the ages between 45 and 65 years.

TOP: Middle Years KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: N/A
11. Which term best describes the functional capabilities of various organ systems in the body?
a. Psychologic age
b. Social age
c. Biologic age
d. Chronologic age
ANS: C
Biologic age focuses on the functional capabilities of various organ systems in the body.

MSC: NCLEX: N/A
12. To what does a person’s type of dress, language, and social relationships pertain?
a. Psychologic age
b. Biologic age
c. Chronologic age
d. Social age
ANS: D
Social age refers to the roles and habits of a person in relation to other members of society,
including such aspects as the person’s type of dress, language, and social relationships.

MSC: NCLEX: N/A
13. Older adults have the ability to remember, dream, and exercise behavioral control. To what
are these factors most related?
a. Biologic age
b. Psychologic age
c. Social age
d. Chronologic age
ANS: B
Psychologic age refers to the behavioral capacity of the person to adapt to changing
environmental demands and the ability to remember, learn, and exercise behavioral control.

TOP: Middle Adulthood KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: N/A
14. To what are most health problems in young adults related?

a. Stress
b. Smoking
c. Alcohol consumption
d. Fatigue
ANS: A
Stress in the workplace and at home is the cause of most of the health problems of young
adults.

TOP: Health Concerns of the Young Adult
15. What is most likely to occur during the time period of young adulthood?
a. Earning most of his or her money, paying most of the taxes, and having most of
the power in business
b. Settling down to a career, raising a family, and taking on new responsibilities
c. Experiencing personal freedom and enjoying maximum influence over others
d. Focusing on many adjustments that must be made to physiologic, psychologic, and
social changes
ANS: B
Developmental tasks of young adults include becoming established in a vocation or profession
that provides personal satisfaction, economic independence, and a feeling of making a
worthwhile contribution to society.

TOP: Developmental Tasks: Young Adulthood KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
16. Which statement made by a resident in a long-term care facility should lead the nurse to
conclude a positive resolution of the developmental task of old age?
a. “I love my children. I could have done more for them.”
b. “I am too young to be in a place like this.”
c. “I miss my friends and wife. I’m ready to go.”
d. “I’ve enjoyed the ride!”
ANS: D
Developmental tasks of older adults include maintaining emotional satisfaction in relation to
their past lives.

TOP: Developmental Tasks: Older Adulthood
17. Which group of adults must accept role reversal with their parents?
a. Younger adults
b. Old young adults
c. Middle-aged adults
d. Older-aged adults
ANS: C
Middle-aged persons must accept role reversal with their parents.

TOP: Middle Years KEY: Nursing Process Step: Planning
18. All of the following behaviors have been assessed by the nurse in a 52-year-old man. Which
behavior is considered incongruent with middle-aged developmental tasks?
a. Refusal to work more than 50 hours a week
b. Refusal to give up time with his grandchildren
c. Refusal to stop his semiweekly golf game
d. Refusal to make preparations for retirement
ANS: D
The developmental tasks of middle adulthood include preparation for retirement.

TOP: Developmental Tasks: Middle Adulthood
19. Which age group is asking patients about loneliness a particularly significant assessment?
a. Young adults
b. Old young adults
c. Old middle-aged adults
d. Older adults
ANS: D
Because of changes in living conditions and the loss of a spouse or significant other, older
adults may feel lonely.

TOP: Development Tasks: Older Adulthood
MSC: NCLEX: Psychosocial Integrity: Coping and Adaptation
20. What is an example of an ethnic- and gender-related difference in life expectancies?

a. Black men live longer than white men.
b. White women live longer than black women.
c. Black men live longer than black women.
d. White men live longer than white women.
ANS: B
Life expectancies have been extended for all middle-aged adults. White men have a life
expectancy of 75.7 years, white women have a life expectancy of 80.4 years, black men have
a life expectancy of 69.5 years, and black women have a life expectancy of 76.5 years.

TOP: Extended Life Expectancy KEY: Nursing Process Step: Planning
MSC: NCLEX: Physiological Integrity: Physiological Adaptation
21. A single 48-year-old woman has not had a regular menstrual period for the past 6 months. She
tells the nurse she has been experiencing vaginal spotting for the past several days. What may
these symptoms indicate?
a. Miscarriage
b. Endometrial cancer
c. Severe vaginitis
d. Resumption of menses
ANS: B
Unexpected vaginal bleeding in menopausal women may be signs of endometrial cancer.

TOP: Vaginal Bleeding in Menopausal Women
22. What are the leading causes of death in older adults?

a. Vehicular accidents and suicide
b. Cardiovascular disease and diabetes mellitus
c. Alcoholism and cirrhosis
d. Cancer and strokes
ANS: B
The major cause of death of those in the older age group is related to chronic illness,
specifically cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes mellitus.

TOP: Health Problems of the Older Adult KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: N/A
23. A 74-year-old man asks a nurse if he needs to get revaccinated with the pneumococcal
vaccine because he has not had one for 2 years. What is the most informative response by the
nurse?
a. “Yes. You should have the pneumonia vaccine every year.”
b. “No. One vaccination for pneumonia is all you need.”
c. “Yes. Every year they alter the vaccine to include more infectious organisms.”
d. “No. You only need to be revaccinated every 5 years.”
ANS: D
Pneumonia revaccination should be given every 5 years.

TOP: Pneumonia Vaccine KEY: Nursing Process Step: Implementation
24. Which intervention is directed toward reducing the most common cause of death among
young adults?
a. Teaching early warning signs of cancer
b. Encouraging cardiovascular fitness
c. Teaching principles of safe sex
d. Promoting safe driving practices
ANS: D
The four major causes of death in the young adult age group are vehicular accidents, other
accidents, suicide, and homicide.

TOP: Health Problems KEY: Nursing Process Step: Implementation
25. What is the term sandwich generation used to describe?

a. Young adults who tend to eat on the run
b. Middle-aged adults caring for both children and parents
c. Single-parent households
d. Older adults who are in transition from independent to assisted living
ANS: B
Many people who are in their middle years belong to a group called the sandwich generation.
They may have teenagers and young adults at home and, at the same time, have ailing elderly
parents to care for.

MSC: NCLEX: N/A
MULTIPLE RESPONSE
26. Why have many young adults today extended their adolescence and live with their parents?
(Select all that apply.)
a. Postgraduate educational goals
b. Military obligations
c. Job losses
d. Chronic illnesses
e. Divorces
ANS: A, C, E
Education, job loss, and divorce have caused many young adults to return to their parents’
homes.

TOP: Extended Adolescence KEY: Nursing Process Step: N/A
MSC: NCLEX: N/A
27. What should be a nurse’s focus when counseling a 25-year-old mother and businesswoman
regarding health promotion? (Select all that apply.)
a. Adhering to an exercise program
b. Having a Pap stain/test performed every 3 years
c. Making annual appointments for a mammogram
d. Performing a self-breast examination (SBE) monthly
e. Scheduling an annual physical examination
ANS: A, D
Adequate exercise programs and monthly SBEs are appropriate for a 25-year-old woman.
Annual physical examinations are not necessary. Mammograms are recommended after the
age of 40 or 50 years. Pap stains/tests should be performed annually.

TOP: Health Promotion Behaviors for Young Adult
28. To what is the gradual weight gain of a 25-year-old man most likely related? (Select all that
apply.)
a. Consuming the same amount of calories as he did as an adolescent
b. Inadequate exercise
c. Consuming large amount of protein in the diet
d. Keeping late hours, resulting in inadequate rest
e. Eating junk food
ANS: A, B, E
Obesity in young adults is related to maintaining eating habits from adolescence in terms of
amount and content but with inadequate exercise.
DIF: Cognitive Level: Knowledge REF: p. 130-132 OBJ: 2

TOP: Weight Gain KEY: Nursing Process Step: Assessment
COMPLETION
29. A nurse assesses that a 22-year-old woman who is totally committed to her career and who
does not date or socialize is experiencing the Eriksonian crises of _____.
ANS:
isolation
If a person is not building generativity, the resulting crisis is that of isolation.

TOP: Self-Absorption KEY: Nursing Process Step: Assessment
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AN OPEN VERDICT
VOL. II.
AN OPEN VERDICT
A Novel
by the author of
‘LADY AUDLEY’S SECRET’
etc. etc. etc.
IN THREE VOLUMES
VOL. II.
LONDON:
JOHN MAXWELL AND CO.
4, SHOE LANE, FLEET STREET,
1878
[All rights reserved.]
CONTENTS TO VOL. II.
chap. PAGE
i. Death brings Cool Night after Life’s Sultry Day! 1
ii. Dust and an Endless Darkness 17
iii. Before the Coroner 31
iv. Christmas Eve 49
v. Gloomy Days 65
vi. Bella’s Revenge 82
vii. Mine own Familiar Friend 96
viii. Cyril renounces Love and Fortune 109
‘Those are the Killing Griefs which dare not
ix. 128
Speak’
x. ‘Alas! I have nor Hope nor Health’ 141
xi. ‘Why was my Cressid then so hard to Win?’ 159
xii. Something must be Done 176
xiii. ‘A Smile of thine shall make my Bliss’ 189
‘Oh, Break, my Heart!—Poor Bankrupt, Break at
xiv. 208
once’
xv. But am I not the Nobler through thy Love? 216
xvi. I only Learned to Doubt at Last 230
xvii. The only Son of his Mother 248
xviii. ‘Sick, sick to the Heart of Life am I’ 274
xix. Mr. Piper falls in Love 291
xx. Mr. Piper makes an Offer 300
xxi. Cyril’s Nurses 314
AN OPEN VERDICT.
CHAPTER I.
‘death brings cool night after life’s sultry day.’
Monday morning was bleak and cold. There was neither frost nor
snow, but a driving rain that beat fiercely upon all the southern
windows of the Water House, and obscured the view of river and
village, church tower and moorland.
At nine o’clock Beatrix was still sleeping. Bella, to whom necessity
had given the habit of early rising, was dressed and out of her room
before eight, and found herself at a loss for occupation. There was a
cheery fire in Miss Harefield’s sitting-room, and the breakfast was
laid—a snug round table bright with pretty china and quaint old silver,
with an old blue and red Oriental bowl of hothouse flowers in the
centre. How different from the Scratchell table, with its tumbled
week-old cloth, which was like an enlarged copy of Mercator’s Chart
of the World, done in tea and coffee—its odds and ends of crockery,
all cracked—for what pottery that ever the potter moulded could
withstand the destructiveness of the young Scratchells?—the
battered old Britannia teapot, stale quartern loaf, scanty remnant of
salt butter, and inadequate dish of pale-faced rashers, the
distribution of which half-cured pig gave rise to much ill-will and
recrimination among Mr. Scratchell’s olive branches!
At home Bella would have had to help in the preparation of the
morning meal, and to assist her overworked mother in the struggle to
preserve peace and order while it was being eaten. Here she had
nothing to do but to sit and watch the logs burning, and listen to the
clock ticking and the rain lashing the windows, while she waited for
Beatrix.
This state of existence, placid though it was as compared with the
turmoil of home, soon began to pall upon Bella, who was of an
essentially active temper. She went to the window and looked out,
but could see only dim shapes of mountain and moor through the
blinding rain. She thought of Cyril Culverhouse, who was going his
rounds already, perhaps, in the cold and rain, or teaching damp
children in a windy schoolroom. She thought of her poor mother,
whose much-tried spirit was doubtless being exercised by the
teakettle’s obstinate persistence in not boiling, and of her father, who
was most likely making himself an affliction to everybody with his
well-known Monday morning temper.
To-morrow would be Christmas Day. This afternoon Miss
Harefield’s presents, and Bella’s poor little offerings were to be sent
to the Scratchells. Bella wondered whether her father would be
mollified in temper as evening wore round so far as to allow of egg-
flip or snapdragon—those luxuries for which the young Scratchells
always pleaded, but wherewith they were but seldom gratified. Yet,
by and by, when going down the bill of life, they would look back
fondly upon this and childhood, and, softened by distance, the rare
and scanty pleasures of these early days would seem to them
sweeter than anything which a prosperous later life could yield.
The clock struck the quarter after nine, and still Bella sat looking at
the fire, with the breakfast table undisturbed. Even the urn had left
off hissing. Beatrix was not generally so late. The two girls had been
accustomed to sit down together at eight, for in Miss Scales’ moral
code late hours were sinful, and a nine o’clock breakfast was the first
stage in a downward career.
Bella’s patience was exhausted. She went to Beatrix’s door and
knocked. No answer. She knocked louder, and called, and still there
was no answer. She was beginning to feel uneasy, when she saw
the young woman who waited on Miss Harefield coming along the
corridor.
‘Is your mistress up, Mary? Have you done her hair?’
‘No, miss. I went at half-past seven, as usual, but she was
sleeping so sound I didn’t like to wake her. I know she has had bad
nights lately, and I thought the sleep would do her good. I’ve been on
the listen for her bell ever since.’
‘And she has not rung?’
‘No, miss.’
Bella went in without another word. Beatrix was sleeping
profoundly.
‘Don’t wake her, miss,’ said the maid, looking in at the door. ‘She’s
been wanting sleep all along. Mr. Namby says so. Let her have her
sleep out.’
‘Very well,’ assented Bella. ‘I’ll go and have my breakfast. I’m quite
exhausted with waiting.’
‘So you must be, miss, and the urn is cold and the eggs too, I’ll lay.
I’ll go and get things hotted up for you.’
Bella sat down to her lonely breakfast, presently, profound silence
reigning in the house, and a dulness as of the grave. She began to
think that, after all, wealth was not an unqualified blessing. Here was
the heiress to one of the finest estates in Yorkshire, with innumerable
acres in Lincolnshire to boot, leading an existence so joyless and
monotonous that even one week of it was too much for Miss
Scratchell. And yonder at the Park the wife of a millionaire was
hastening her descent to the grave by vain cares and needless
economies. The rich people did not seem, according to Bella’s small
experience, to get value for their money.
She was still sitting at breakfast when she was surprised by a visit
from the butler.
‘Oh, if you please, ma’am,’ he began, with a serious air, ‘Mrs.
Peters and I are rather anxious about Mr. Harefield. We really don’t
feel to know what we ought to do—the circumstances are altogether
out of the way. I don’t want to do more than my duty as a faithful
servant—and I shouldn’t feel satisfied if I was to do less.’
‘But what is wrong?’ asked Bella, puzzled and scared by this
circumlocution, and now perceiving the round rubicund visage of the
housekeeper looking in at the door. ‘Is Mr. Harefield ill?’
‘No, Miss Scratched, it isn’t that—but we cannot find him.’
‘You can’t find him?’
‘No, ma’am. He isn’t in his bedroom, and what’s more, his bed
wasn’t slept in last night. He isn’t in the library or the dining-room,
and those three rooms are the only ones he ever uses. His habits, as
you know, ma’am, are as regular as clockwork, as far as regards
meals and so on. He takes his breakfast at nine o’clock, and goes
from his breakfast to his library. He never left home in his life without
letting me know beforehand. But he didn’t sleep in this house last
night, and he’s not to be found in this house this morning.’
‘He may have gone away last night with that strange gentleman,’
suggested Bella.
‘No, ma’am, that he didn’t, for I let the foreign gentleman out, and
locked the door after him.’
‘Have you searched the house? Mr. Harefield may have fallen
down in a fit somewhere. It’s too dreadful to think of.’
‘I’ve looked everywhere that was likely. There are only three rooms
that he ever uses, as I said, ma’am. And I wouldn’t frighten Miss
Harefield for the world. That’s why I came to consult you, ma’am,
knowing you to be a clever young lady, and your father being my
master’s lawyer.’
‘Come,’ said Bella, seeing the two servants looking at her, as if for
inspiration. ‘If Mr. Harefield has gone away on the spur of the
moment, I dare say he has left a letter or a memorandum
somewhere. Let us go round the house together, and look about. It
was quite right of you not to disturb Miss Harefield.’
Bella led the way downstairs, followed by the two scared servants.
Her heart was beating fast, agitated by nameless fears; but even in
the midst of her fear she felt a kind of elation, a sense of new
importance. Some great event was going to happen. This slow old
ship, the Water House, was entering stormy seas, and she was at
the helm.
A sudden thought went through her heart like a knife. What if Mr.
Harefield were to die? His death would mean wealth and freedom,
love, liberty, all glad things that earth could give for Beatrix. It would
mean union with Cyril Culverhouse. The pang of envy which pierced
Bella’s little soul at that thought was an almost insupportable agony.
She had endured the idea of their mutual love with secret pangs and
heart-burnings, but with at least an outward patience, while all
possibility of their union was afar off. But, to see them prosperous
lovers, happy in each other; to hear their wedding bells, and to have
to sit by and smile assentingly while her little world praised them and
rejoiced in their happiness, would be too much. All these
considerations passed through her mind as she went downstairs,
with the housekeeper and butler behind her, on her way to the
library, where, if any letter had been left by Mr. Harefield before his
departure, it was most likely to be found.
The shutters had been opened and the blinds drawn up, the fire
was lighted, the chairs were set straight. But the large writing-table,
with its litter of books and papers, had been left untouched. The
housemaids at the Water House knew their duties too well to disturb
anything there.
There were letters on the mantelpiece, old letters thrust carelessly
behind bronze candlesticks and Oriental jars. The butler went over to
the hearth to examine these papers, with a faint hope that there
might be a message from his missing master among them. The
housekeeper went to look at a tray in the hall, where cards and
letters were sometimes put, and where it was just possible her
master might have left some message on a scrap of paper.
Bella turned over the books on the table—a volume of Euripides,
the last number of the Westminster, half a dozen pamphlets, political
and scientific. She started, and looked at the butler, who was
standing with his back to her, deliberately sorting the letters he had
taken from the mantelpiece, chiefly receipted accounts which his
master had thrust there and forgotten, Christian Harefield not being a
man of business-like habits, or given to the docketing and pigeon-
holing of unimportant papers.
Here, under Bella Scratchell’s hand, lying half hidden among the
books and pamphlets, was a letter that evidently meant something. A
large blue envelope, sealed with the Harefield crest, and curiously
addressed,—
‘For my daughter Beatrix.’
A man would hardly write to his daughter, she living under the
same roof with him, sitting at meat with him a few hours ago, unless
he had something of an exceptional nature to tell her. These
considerations and some more passed through Bella’s mind as she
stood with her hand on the letter, her eyes on the butler’s portly
back.
He was entirely engrossed with his scrutiny of the envelopes in his
hand, being of a slow and stolid temperament, and requiring leisure
in which to grasp an idea. At this moment no one but Bella and the
writer knew of the existence of this letter.
And the writer, where was he?
Bella put the letter into her pocket.
‘I will give it to her myself,’ she thought. ‘It will be better.’
‘There’s nothing here, Miss Scratchell,’ said the butler, ‘and this is
where master always puts his letters for the post.’
And then he came and surveyed the table with his slow gaze,
which seemed feebly to interrogate the covers of the books, as if in
the hope that they might tell him something.
‘Nothing on the table, ma’am?’
‘Nothing,’ answered Bella.
‘It’s a very awkward position for old servants to find themselves
placed in,’ said the butler. ‘It isn’t like my master to go out of the
house and tell nobody, and leave his servants to puzzle and worry
themselves about him. He has been eccentric of late years, but
always the gentleman. And how could he go away, except on foot,
which isn’t likely? I’ve been to the stables. He has not been out
there. The horses are in their stalls. There’s no coach goes through
Little Yafford. There’s no rail within five miles.’
‘I wish I knew what to advise you,’ said Bella, ‘but indeed I do not.
It’s quite a dreadful situation for you to be in. And Miss Harefield will
be coming downstairs presently, and must be told. I really think you
ought to send for my father. He would know what to do, perhaps.’
‘I couldn’t take upon myself to do such a thing, ma’am. If my
master should come back, and be offended at us making such a fuss
——’
‘But you have a right to make a fuss. His bed was not slept in last
night, you say. He disappears suddenly on a Sunday night, after
receiving a mysterious visitor. You have a right to be frightened.’
‘Why frightened? Who has disappeared?’ asked a voice at the
door, and Beatrix entered, pallid and heavy eyed after her late
slumbers.
‘Oh, Beatrix,’ cried Bella, going over to her, ‘I did not think you
were coming downstairs.’
‘What is wrong?’ asked Beatrix. ‘Is it anything about my father?’
There was a pause, and then she turned sharply upon the butler.
‘There is something wrong,’ she said, ‘and you are trying to hide it
from me. Is my father ill?’
Peacock faltered, stammered, and finally explained the state of
things.
‘When did you last see papa?’ asked Beatrix, after he had
finished.
‘It was half-past ten o’clock, ma’am. I brought wood and coals, and
asked if there was anything more wanted, and my master said no.’
‘Was he looking ill—or agitated?’
‘I did not notice anything particular. He was sitting quietly before
the fire.’
‘Reading?’
‘No. He was not reading.’
Beatrix sank into her father’s chair, very pale, and trembling in
every limb. She could think of nothing—she could suggest nothing.
For the moment the very power of thought seemed suspended, but
this state of mental collapse did not last long. Bella leant over her
and murmured something indistinctly soothing. Beatrix rose and
went quickly to the door.
‘Let us look in every room in the house,’ she said. ‘In my mother’s
rooms first of all. He may be there.’
‘Oh, Miss Beatrix!’ cried Peacock, ‘why, you know those rooms are
never opened.’
‘Yes, sometimes by him. He keeps the key. The visitor last night
was an old friend of my mother’s. The sight of him might bring back
thoughts of the past to my father.’
She ran quickly up stairs, and to the passage out of which her
mother’s rooms opened. It was at the end of the house opposite that
in which Beatrix lived.
‘See,’ she cried, ‘the key is in the door of the morning-room. My
father is there.’
She knocked softly, and waited for a minute or so, but there was
no answer. Then she took courage and went in alone; while
Peacock, and the housekeeper, and Miss Scratchell waited
breathlessly in the corridor.
There was a pause, which to these listeners seemed long, and
then there rose a cry that thrilled them.
They went in all together, full of fear, and found Beatrix Harefield
on her knees beside a sofa, on which, stretched at full length, clad in
its monk’s robe of gray cloth, lay that which a few hours ago had
been the master of all things on the Water House estate, ruler of
many lives, by the sublime right of ten thousand a year.
‘Send some one for Mr. Namby,’ cried Peacock.
‘Come away with me, Miss Beatrix, love,’ cried the housekeeper.
‘You can’t do any good, and you’ll only make yourself unhappy.
Come away with me and Miss Scratchell.’
Bella stood looking on, white and scared, and said not a word.
Beatrix heard good Mrs. Peters’ entreaties, but took no heed. She
was still upon her knees, clasping a dead man’s icy hand, and all the
life within her seemed frozen like his.
CHAPTER II.
‘dust and an endless darkness.’
The church clock struck twelve, and, as the last stroke died into
silence, Little Yafford school-house discharged a torrent of children
into the rainy street, boys in red comforters, girls in blue comforters,
comforters of the three primary colours and all their secondaries.
Overcoats and cloaks were scarce at Little Yafford, and the worsted
comforter was the chief winter clothing.
‘Rain, rain, go away, come again another day,’ shrieked the
children, making a choral appeal to the clerk of the weather.
And they went whooping down the street, spinning tops, flying
shuttlecocks, as if the rain were rather agreeable than otherwise.
Cyril Culverhouse came out of the school-house, unfurling his
well-worn umbrella. He had been holding an examination of the
scholars at the end of the year, and was disheartened at finding
some of them woefully ignorant, despite the pains he had taken with
both pupils and teachers during the last twelve months. It was uphill
work. He found the children’s minds fairly stored with a collection of
hard facts. They knew all about the deluge, and the passage of the
Red Sea. They could tell him the names of the prophets, and were
as familiar with Daniel and Jonah as if the adventures of those holy
men had been events of the last year; but of spiritual things, of the
principles and meaning of their religion, they had hardly an idea.
Here all was dark. They were Christians because they had been
signed with the sign of the Cross, and sprinkled with holy water by
the parson. Their catechisms told them all about that. But what
Christianity meant, with its Divine law of love, justice, and mercy,
they knew nothing.
Mr. Culverhouse sighed as he opened his umbrella and went out
into the cold and rain. This Christmastide did not come upon him as

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