Ah, what would have happened if Garth had come back in answer to her cry during those first moments of intolerable suffering and loneliness?
But Garth was not the sort of man who, when a door has been shut upon him, waits on the mat outside, hoping to be recalled.

When she put him from her, and he realised that she meant it he passed completely out of her life.

He was at the railway station by the time she reached the house, and from that day to this they had never met.

Garth evidently considered the avoidance of meetings to be his responsibility, and he never failed her in this.
Once or twice she went on a visit to houses where she knew him to be staying.

He always happened to have left that morning, if she arrived in time for luncheon; or by an early afternoon train, if she was due for tea.