Chapter the Third
In the back corner of the very room in which this palpitating scene was taking place, Mr. Plumpkins raised yet another soda cracker to his immortal lips. Miss Reede gasped and clutched her heart. In that timeless moment, she had fallen into the throes of passion for the unattainable Mr. Plumpkins. Her best friend forgotten, Miss Reede suddenly recalled that Mr. Plumpkins was upon the Point of Marriage with Miss Adrianna Morrisson! Already of a sickly constitution, Clarissa rapidly expired on the couch.
"Alas," exclaimed Mrs. Carlson, "all is working widdershins for me. I must away to a foreign land, to seek some better fortune." She straightaway parted and died a martyr to consumption in the Orient. She was not bereft of kinsfolk, however, as her father died with her.