She only speculated on what might have happened if this had come about, just as one works out a game of chess from a given hypothetical situation of the pieces.
Perhaps, too, the same end might be gained in some other way.

Perhaps Mr.Davies might still be weaned from his infatuation.

The wall was difficult, but it would have to be very difficult if she could not find a way to climb it.

It never occurred to Elizabeth that there might be an open gate.

She could not conceive it possible that a woman might positively reject Owen Davies and his seven or ten thousand a year, and that woman a person in an unsatisfactory and uncongenial, almost in a menial position.