Malcolm looked at them all before he went back to town; but all that evening the remembrance of Elizabeth's rapt, uplifted look remained with him.
"She did not know I was there," he said to himself.

But he was wrong.
The very next evening he had a note from Dinah.
"Elizabeth wants me to thank you," she wrote, "for your lovely cross.
She thought it so kind of you to be there with us.

We both saw you.

Was it not all peaceful and beautiful?
Next Thursday Elizabeth is going to Stokeley with Mr.Carlyon.He is better, but still very weak and ailing, and she dare not leave him to Theo.

When I am alone, will you come down for a night?
it would be such a comfort to talk to so kind a friend." And then when Malcolm read this he made up his mind that he would go to the Wood House as soon as Elizabeth had left for Stokeley..