`` And Chester -- where is he ? '' demanded Thyra . Carl and Cynthia looked at each other . `` Well , Thyra , '' said the latter , `` the fact is , he 's over there in our yard this blessed minute . Carl brought him home from the harbor , but I would n't let him come over until we had prepared you for it . He 's waiting for you there . '' Thyra made a quick step in the direction of the gate . Then she turned , with a little of the glow dying out of her face . `` No , there 's one has a better right to go to him first . I can atone to him -- thank God , I can atone to him ! '' She went into the house and called Damaris . As the girl came down the stairs Thyra held out her hands with a wonderful light of joy and renunciation on her face . `` Damaris , '' she said , `` Chester has come back to us -- the sea has given him back to us . He is over at Carl White 's house . Go to him , my daughter , and bring him to me ! '' XI . THE EDUCATION OF BETTY When Sara Currie married Jack Churchill I was broken-hearted ... or believed myself to be so , which , in a boy of twenty-two , amounts to pretty much the same thing . Not that I took the world into my confidence ; that was never the Douglas way , and I held myself in honor bound to live up to the family traditions . I thought , then , that nobody but Sara knew ; but I dare say , now , that Jack knew it also , for I do n't think Sara could have helped telling him . If he did know , however , he did not let me see that he did , and never insulted me by any implied sympathy ; on the contrary , he asked me to be his best man .
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Carl Chester Cynthia Jack Sara Thyra White XI first right