But there--it is best to understand.

Au revoir." Miriam read this letter twice, after which she sealed it up.

A year later she broke the seal to show her mother the letter.
"You are a nun--you are a nun." The words went into her heart again and again.

Nothing he ever had said had gone into her so deeply, fixedly, like a mortal wound.
She answered him two days after the party.
"'Our intimacy would have been all-beautiful but for one little mistake,'" she quoted.

"Was the mistake mine ?" Almost immediately he replied to her from Nottingham, sending her at the same time a little "Omar Khayyam." "I am glad you answered; you are so calm and natural you put me to shame.