I came out to see Aunty Nan . '' `` I 'm certain she 'd be delighted , '' said Mrs. William effusively . `` She 's been talking about you for weeks . '' `` Yes , it has made her very happy , '' said Joscelyn gravely . `` And it has made me happy , too . I love Aunty Nan , Mrs. Morrison , and I owe her much . In all my life I have never met a woman so purely , unselfishly good and noble and true . '' `` Fancy now , '' said Mrs. William , rather overcome at hearing this great singer pronounce such an encomium on quiet , timid old Aunty Nan . Jordan drove Joscelyn back to Kensington ; and up-stairs in her room Aunty Nan slept , with that rapt smile on her face and Joscelyn 's red roses in her hands . Thus it was that Mrs. William found her , going in the next morning with her breakfast . The sunlight crept over the pillow , lighting up the sweet old face and silver hair , and stealing downward to the faded red roses on her breast . Smiling and peaceful and happy lay Aunty Nan , for she had fallen on the sleep that knows no earthy wakening , while little Joscelyn sang . V . The Winning of Lucinda The marriage of a Penhallow was always the signal for a gathering of the Penhallows . From the uttermost parts of the earth they would come -- Penhallows by birth , and Penhallows by marriage and Penhallows by ancestry . East Grafton was the ancient habitat of the race , and Penhallow Grange , where `` old '' John Penhallow lived , was a Mecca to them . As for the family itself , the exact kinship of all its various branches and ramifications was a hard thing to define . Old Uncle Julius Penhallow was looked upon as a veritable wonder because he carried it all in his head and could tell on sight just what relation any one Penhallow was to any other Penhallow . The rest made a blind guess at it , for the most part , and the younger Penhallows let it go at loose cousinship . In this instance it was Alice Penhallow , daughter of `` young '' John Penhallow , who was to be married .
Alice was a nice girl , but she and her wedding only pertain to this story in so far as they furnish a background for Lucinda ; hence nothing more need be said XXXXX her .
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