"I don't mean there was anything to rectify; everything was as it had to be, and I'm not speaking of how she may have been concerned for you and me.

I'm speaking of how she took, in her way, each time, THEIR lives in hand, and how, therefore, that ties her up to-day.

She can't go to them and say 'It's very awkward of course, you poor dear things, but I was frivolously mistaken.'" He took it in still, with his long look at her.

"All the more that she wasn't.

She was right.