No news could be sent, but in a few hours they would talk to each other.

Finally, the address was to be kept a secret, to be kept even from Gilbert; she depended upon Lydia to obey her in this.

A postscript added: 'You will easily find the house.

I would come to the station and meet every train, but I couldn't bear to see you there first.' Lydia had deep misgivings, but they did not occupy her mind for long.
She was going to see Thyrza; that, as she realised it, rang a peal of joy in her ears and made her forget all else.

But the money she would not use; she had enough to pay her fare, and in any case she would somehow have obtained it rather than spend this, which came she knew not from whom.