Although Octavie an Edmond did not want to be separated they were. Edmond was sent to serve at the Civil war. Octavie gave Edmond a locket that meant a lot to her, it had belonged to her parents. When the locket was returned to Octavie I really thought Edmond was dead specially when in the story it says about her wearing a black dress and” beneath the folds of her bodice nestled the old locket it had returned to her sanctified in her eyes; made precious as material things sometimes are being forever identified with a significant moment of one’s existence”.

I truly believed Edmond was dead until the Priest ask “ Do you think that on a day like this, miracles might happen? When the whole earth is vibrant with life, does it not seems to you Octavie, that heaven might for once relent and give us back the dead?” It was at that moment I felt Edmond was alive. …show more content…
The story kept me in suspense for a while as it said how talked about his hand clutching the sward and the priest removing the locket from the soldier neck. I was still surprised at the ending to know that for sure Edmond was a