Perhaps he could not speak to her.
In any case, the immediate future was full of difficulties.

It was a simple matter to take Thyrza to the Emersons' lodgings and get her restored to health, but what must then become of her?
The best hope was that even yet she might marry Grail.

Between the latter and Egremont doubtless everything was at an end; all the better, if there remained a possibility of Thyrza's forgetting this trial and some day fulfilling her promise.

But in the meantime--a period, perhaps, of years--what must be done?
The sisters might of course live together as hitherto and earn their living in the accustomed way, but Mrs.Ormonde understood too well the dangers of an attempt to patch together old and new.

There was no foreseeing the effect of her sufferings on Thyrza's character; in spite of idealisms, suffering more often does harm than good.
In fact, she must become acquainted with the truth of the case before she could reasonably advise or help.