The Death Mask
On the staircase after dinner, two old friends pause before a portrait. The widower sees a good likeness. His visitor remembers how little affection ever passed between him and the woman in the picture.
From the text
Enderby and I were on our way to the smoking-room after dinner, and the picture hung on the staircase. We had been chums at school a quarter of a century ago, and later on at college; but I had spent the last decade out of England. I returned to find my friend a widower of four years' standing.
Mrs. H. D. Everett · London: Philip Allan & Co., 1920. · Philip Allan & Co. · 1920
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