Take my advice: stay where you are; write her a loving, sweet letter and tell her how happy you hope she will be, and send her your congratulations.

She will not listen to your objections, and your opposition might lose you her love." Before dark they were both on their way back to Yardley.

Burton's boy had not been hurt as badly as his father thought; but one leg was broken, and this was soon in splints, and without Jane's assistance.
Before they had reached her door her mind was made up.
The doctor's words, as they always did, had gone down deep into her mind, and all thoughts of going abroad, or of even protesting against Lucy's marriage, were given up.

Only the spectre remained.

That the doctor knew nothing of, and that she must meet alone.
Martha took Jane's answer to the post-office herself.