I had heard that her marriage with Mr. DeLisle was loveless on her part and proved very unhappy . But he had been dead many years , and Aunt Winnifred never spoke of him . `` I have made up my mind what to do , '' said Grandmother decidedly . `` I will write to Eliza and ask her if I may open the chest to see if the moths have got into it . If she refuses , well and good . I have no doubt that she will refuse . She will cling to her old sentimental ideas as long as the breath is in her body . '' I rather avoided the old chest after this . It took on a new significance in my eyes and seemed to me like the tomb of something -- possibly some dead and buried romance of the past . Later on a letter came to Grandmother ; she passed it over the table to Mrs. DeLisle . `` That is from Eliza , '' she said . `` I would know her writing anywhere -- none of your modern sprawly , untidy hands , but a fine lady-like script , as regular as copperplate . Read the letter , Winnifred ; I have n't my glasses and I dare say Eliza 's rhapsodies would tire me very much . You need not read them aloud -- I can imagine them all . Let me know what she says about the chest . '' Aunt Winnifred opened and read the letter and laid it down with a brief sigh . `` This is all she says about the chest . ` If it were not for one thing that is in it , I would ask you to open the chest and burn all its contents . But I can not bear that anyone but myself should see or touch that one thing . So please leave the chest as it is , dear Aunt .
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