.

Do say it!" But Rachel made no response to this invitation either.

She stopped with her fingers on the handle of the door, as if she remembered that some sort of pronouncement was due from her.
"I suppose you'll marry one of them," she said, and then turned the handle and shut the door behind her.

She walked slowly down the passage, running her hand along the wall beside her.

She did not think which way she was going, and therefore walked down a passage which only led to a window and a balcony.