It was not for him, or for any man, to see that look.

The eyes which should have seen it were sightless evermore.
"What then, Deryck?
Love will know best what then.

All barriers will be swept away, and Garth and I will be together." The doctor's finger-tips met very exactly before he spoke again; and when he did speak, his tone was very level and very kind.
"Ah, Jane," he said, "that is the woman's point of view.

It is certainly the simplest, and perhaps the best.

But at Garth's bedside you will be confronted with the man's point of view; and I should be failing the trust you have placed in me did I not put that before you now .-- From the man's point of view, your own mistaken action three years ago has placed you now in an almost impossible position.