The Two Destinies

she clasped me passionately to her bosom, and whispered in my ear: "I am Mary Dermody! I made it for You!"… In that look the kindred spirits were united; The Two Destinies were fulfilled.

Childhood maker of the flag revealed as adult beloved — plot as destiny reunion machine — so plot scores 82.

Walking on our way to the lake we had Mary's father with us for guide and companion. The good man served as bailiff on my father's estate.… Mary was ten years old.

Mary introduced as bailiff's child-love — cast seed of the later Van Brandt double — so cast scores 81.

CHAPTER XXX. THE PROSPECT DARKENS. THREE days after my mother and I had established ourselves at Torquay, I received Mrs. Van Brandt's answer to my letter.

Late letter darkens prospects before shipboard close — serial brake then recognition rush — so pace scores 78.

LOOK back, my memory, through the dim labyrinth of the past, through the mingling joys and sorrows of twenty years. Rise again, my boyhood's days, by the winding green shores of the little lake.

Lyric memory apostrophe — romance prose distinct from Collins's legal clarity — so prose scores 83.

CHAPTER XIX. THE CATS. MISS DUNROSS had so completely perplexed me, that I was at a loss what to say next. To ask her plainly why it was necessary to keep the room in darkness while she remained in it, might prove… an act of positive rudeness.

Darkened northern room and cats mark a strange station on the destiny map — so world scores 80.

Come to me once more, my child-love, in the innocent beauty of your first ten years of life. Let us live again, my angel, as we lived in our first paradise, before sin and sorrow lifted their flaming swords and drove us out into the world.

Paradise-and-exile hook sets destiny romance before any adult triangle — so hook scores 84.

CHAPTER IX. NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL. I POINTED to the writing in the sketch book, and looked at my mother. I was not mistaken. She _had_ seen it, as I had seen it. But she refused to acknowledge that anything had happened to alarm her

Sketch-book writing as shared supernatural sign — destiny plot via occult signature — so innov scores 84.

One long look of love passed silently from her eyes to mine—from mine to hers. In that look the kindred spirits were united; The Two Destinies were fulfilled. THE END OF THE STORY.

Kindred-spirit look closes the destinies; framed manuscript ends before Wife Finale — so ending scores 85.