# Jane--Our Stranger: A Novel

Author: Borden, Mary, 1886-1968

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66568

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Jane--Our+Stranger%3A+A+Novel+Borden&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

It is a pity we do not die when our lives are finished. Jane may live another twenty years--a long time to wait, alone between two worlds. Jane is forty-three, I am five years older, Philibert is fifty-six, my mother nearly eighty, we are all alive, and strangely enough _Maman_ is the only one whose life is not yet ended. Hers will not end till the moment of her death. She has been a wise artist. She is still embroidering delicately the pattern of her days; she still holds the many threads in her fingers. Quietly, exquisitely she will put in the last stitches. They will be the most beautiful of all; they will be her signature, the signature of a lady. Then she will close her eyes and comm...

## Chapters

- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jane-our-stranger-a-novel-66568/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jane-our-stranger-a-novel-66568/chapters/1/index.md)