Yet her reserve had been involuntary; assuredly she was not then moved with a longing to recover what she had rejected.
There was a change after the meeting with Thyrza Trent.

It seemed to her very foolish to remember so persistently that Egremont had said nothing of the girl's strange loveliness, yet she could not help thinking of the omission as something significant.

She even recollected that, in speaking to her of Thyrza, he had turned his eyes seaward.
Such trifles could mean nothing as regarded Egremont, but how in reference to herself?
How if she knew that he had given his love to another woman?
I think that would be hard to bear.
And it was hard to bear.
Passion had won it over everything.

He had taken Thyrza at the eleventh hour, and now she was married to him.

She did not doubt it; she felt that Mrs.Ormonde did not doubt it.