The day would come when she could find courage to speak to him.

She waited and prepared herself.
Prepared herself, for that, and for so much else.

Waymark's behaviour would have cost her the bitterest misery, had she not been able to explain it to her own satisfaction.

There could be but one reason why he held aloof from her, and that an all-sufficient one.

In her new position, it was impossible for him to be more than just friendly to her.