Cozens Family Tree

There was a railway line in a cutting at the bottom of the garden. When Maria was seven years old she saw her friend, an elderly gentleman who was stone deaf, walking on the railway line when a train was coming. She waved to attract his attention, but he waved back cheerfully, quite unaware of the danger, and he was knocked down and killed. Maria raced back to the house, blurted out the story, and then fell dead herself.