By one o'clock the gathering began to disperse.

Monica drew Rhoda Nunn aside.
'It was very kind of you to come,' she whispered, with half a sob.

'It all seems very silly, and I'm sure you have wished yourself away a hundred times.

I am really, seriously, grateful to you.' Rhoda put a hand on each side of the girl's face, and kissed her, but without saying a word; and thereupon left the house.

Mildred Vesper, after changing her dress in the room used by Monica, as she had done on arriving, went off by train to her duties in Great Portland Street.
Virginia alone remained to see the married couple start for their honeymoon.