Journal

CHAP 49: DEATH COMES TO HUNTINGDON
Letter 3: Through his obstinacy Arthur suffers a relapse and becomes very
difficult to manage and Helen puts young Arthur into Esther’s care. Though
Huntingdon’s life is at risk he is careless that his soul is also in peril.
Letter 4: Arthur’s health continues to deteriorate. The Hattersleys visit.
Arthur reports a sudden absence of pain, which Helen interprets as a sign that
the end is near.
Letter 5: Arthur has gone and Helen describes his last moments.
CHAP 50: FREE AT LAST
Gilbert cannot but be pleased at the news of Helen’s release from a tyrannical
marriage, partly for her sake but partly because it improves his own
prospects.
Postscript on Lord and Lady Lowborough: She elopes to the continent
with a “gallant”. They split up; she gets into debt and dies wretchedly. He
divorces her and remarries — a lady who is unremarkable in beauty and
status, but sensible and good.
Postscript on Grimsby: He continues his moral decline and dies in a
drunken brawl.
Postscript on Hattersley: He moves to the country, gives up his friends of
ill repute, breeds horses and becomes respectable.
CHAP 51: THE WRONG BRIDE
Eliza tells Gilbert that Helen is shortly to marry Walter Hargrave. Distressed,
Gilbert goes to Lawrence for confirmation but finds him gone to Grassdale.
Gilbert hurries there by coach in the vain hope of being able to stop the
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