The
money was taken away from me in time; and you see it's been kept- kept
till it was wanted for you. It's wonderful- our life is wonderful.'
Silas sat in silence a few minutes, looking at the money. 'It takes
no hold of me now,' he said, ponderingly- 'the money doesn't. I wonder
if it ever could again- I doubt it might, if I lost you, Eppie. I
might come to think I was forsaken again, and lose the feeling that
God was good to me.'
At that moment there was a knocking at the door; and Eppie was
obliged to rise without answering Silas. Beautiful she looked, with
the tenderness of gathering tears in her eyes and a slight flush on
her cheeks, as she stepped to open the door. The flush deepened when
she saw Mr and Mrs Godfrey Cass. She made her little rustic curtsy,
and held the door wide for them to enter.
'We're disturbing you very late, my dear,' said Mrs Cass, taking
Eppie's hand, and looking in her face with an expression of anxious
interest and admiration. Nancy herself was pale and tremulous.
Eppie, after placing chairs for Mr and Mrs Cass, went to stand against
Silas, opposite to them.
'Well, Marner,' said Godfrey, trying to speak with perfect
firmness, 'it's a great comfort to me to see you with your money
again, that you've been deprived of so many years. It was one of my
family did you the wrong- the more grief to me- and I feel bound to
make up to you for it in every way.
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