'Dear Mr.Rolfe,' she wrote, 'did you let Mamma know of my hasty and foolish behaviour?
If not--and I very much hope you didn't--please not to reply to this, but let us see you on Wednesday afternoon, just in the ordinary way.

If Mamma _has_ been told, still don't trouble to write, and in that case I dare say you will not care to come.

If you are engaged this Wednesday, perhaps you could come next.' And she signed herself his sincerely.
He did not reply, and Wednesday saw him climbing once more to the little flat; ashamed of being here, yet unable to see how he could have avoided it, except by leaving London.

For that escape he had no longer much mind.

Quite consciously, and with uneasiness which was now taking a new form, he had yielded to Alma's fascination.