Her suppositions came very near to the truth.

A natural, inevitable, error was that she imagined a scene of mutual declaration between the two.
She could only conjecture that in some way they had frequently met, with the result which, the characters of both being understood, might have been foreseen.

Possibly Egremont had thrown aside every consideration and had asked Thyrza to abandon Grail for his sake; in that case, it might be that Thyrza had fled from what she regarded as dishonourable selfishness, unable to keep her promise to Grail, alike unable to find her own happiness at his expense.
This was supposing the best.

But, as a woman who knew the world, she could not altogether deny approach to fears which, in speaking with Annabel, she would not glance at.

It was unlike Egremont to pass through a crisis such as this without having recourse to her sympathy, which had so long been to him as that of a mother.