The place was too full of painful associations.

Elizabeth's presence haunted every room, the emptiness and desolation of the house oppressed him like a nightmare, and though Dinah's gentleness and tact made things more bearable during the day, at night he found himself unable to sleep; and Dinah, who read his weary look aright, forbore to press him to remain.

"It is not good for him to be here," she said to herself; "he is so kind and unselfish that he will not spare himself, but I will not ask him to come again," and Dinah kept her word.
But they had much to discuss during those two days.

There was now no longer any talk of the Civil Service Examination for Cedric.

At the end of June he was to go abroad for six or eight months.