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 . It is no matter if the moths do get in . ' That is all , '' continued Mrs. DeLisle , `` and I must confess that I am disappointed . I have always had an almost childish curiosity about that old chest , but I seem fated not to have it gratified . That ` one thing ' must be her wedding dress . I have always thought that she locked it away there . '' `` Her answer is just what I expected of her , '' said Grandmother impatiently . `` Evidently the years have not made her more sensible .
Well , I wash my hands XXXXX her belongings , moths or no moths . ''
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