Yet there must be more on Egremont's part than appeared.

Why did he exact secrecy about those meetings in the library?
There was little doubt that Thyrza had betrayed herself to him.

True, he had refrained from keeping the appointment for this morning, and it seemed he was going away till after the marriage.

But all this was too late.
Still he was innocent of the guilt she had suspected.

Thyrza had not come to the dreaded harm.