Yet again, if he did not really care for her--only for her money?
She remembered Denzil Quarrier's lecture on "Woman," and all he had said about the monstrously unfair position of girls who are asked in marriage by men of the world.

And thereupon an idea came into her mind.
Presently she had dried her tears, and in half-an-hour's time she left the house.
Her purpose was to call upon Mrs.Quarrier, whom she had met not long ago at Highmead.

But the lady was not at home.

After a moment of indecision, she wrote on the back of her visiting card: "Will you be so kind as to let me know when I could see you?
I will come at any hour." It was then midday.

In the afternoon she received a note, hand-delivered.