Surely it was with true significance that Rosemary Dacre’s seal—the
seal which always descends to her name-child in the house of
Penicuik—was engraved with the sign of a single star, shedding a
benign and steadfast light over a pathless vastitude of air and a
fluctuating waste of sea; for the Lady’s memory seems to have shone
with an ideal light through many human lives.