GOOD-BYE Left alone, after Thyrza's second visit to him in the library, Egremont had no mind to continue his task.

He idled about for a while, read half a page in a volume he took out of the box at hazard, then put on his overcoat and went out by the front door, which he locked behind him with the key he carried for his own convenience.
He was wishing that he had not fallen into this piece of folly.

As long as no one but Grail and himself was concerned, it mattered nothing; to have established a secret intercourse with Thyrza was a result of his freak for which he was not at all prepared.

And he could not see his way out of the difficulty.

He might go and see Grail, and let him know what he was doing, but that would involve deliberate concealment of Thyrza's visits.