You have done your best for me, and I expect you find it a hopeless job.

For all that, I never thought Festing----" "It's done with," Sadie rejoined quietly, although there was some color in her face.

"If the girl likes Festing, what has it to do with you?
Besides, as he has located some way back from the settlement, there's no reason you should meet him or his wife." Then she frowned and got up.
"But the place is very cold; we'll go home." Charnock put out the light and locked the door, but he was silent as they walked across the snow to the hotel, and Sadie wondered what he thought.

There was no doubt he was disturbed, or he would have tried to coax her into abandoning her resolution to put him on an allowance.

She meant to be firm about this.
For the next two or three weeks Charnock occupied himself with his duties and everything went smoothly at the store and hotel.