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Neither body was ever found ; and the whole of this might not have been known so clearly as it is known , unless it had happened that Mother Eyebright , growing uneasy , came round the corner just in time to be too late . She , like a sensible woman , never dreamed of jumping after them , but ran home so fast that she could not walk to church for three months afterward ; and when her breath came back was enabled to tell tenfold of all she had seen . One of the strangest things in life is the way in which we mortals take the great and fatal blows of life . For instance , the baron was suddenly told , while waiting for Frida to sit beside him , at his one o'clock dinner : `` Plaize , my lard , your lardship 's darter hath a been and jumped off Duty Point . '' `` What an undutiful thing to do ! '' was the first thing Lord de Wichehalse said ; and those who knew no better thought that this was how he took it . Aubyn Auberley , however , took a different measure of a broken-hearted father 's strength .