The Moon out of Reach

Chapter 43: THE END

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A postwar social novel follows a group of young women and their acquaintances in London as disrupted careers, romantic entanglements, and family expectations collide. A series of incidents — misunderstandings, proposals, departures, and unexpected reunions — forces characters to confront questions of honour, sacrifice, and the gap between outward appearances and inner truth. Domestic scenes and social maneuvering alternate with crises that demand decisive moral choices, and relationships are tested by loyalty, pride, and practical necessity. The narrative moves toward emotional reckonings and tentative healing as characters attempt to rebuild lives after upheaval.

She smiled up at him, a tender gravity in her face. Her thoughts slipped back to the little song which seemed to hold so strange a symbolism of her own life. The third verse had come true at last. She repeated it aloud, very softly:

  "But sometimes God on His great white Throne
    Looks down from the Heaven above,
  And lays in the hands that are empty
    The tremulous Star of Love."

Peter stooped and kissed her lips. There was a still, quiet passion in his kiss, but there was something more—something deep and intransmutable—the same unchanging troth which, he had given her at Tintagel of love that would last "through this world into the next."

THE END

End of Project Gutenberg's The Moon out of Reach, by Margaret Pedler