[Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith]@TWC D-Link bookDiana of the Crossways CHAPTER IX 23/25
She dropped on another chair.
'Go I must, I cannot turn back.
She saw my old attachment to this place.
It was not difficult to guess...
Who but I can see the wisest course for me!' 'It comes to this, that the blow aimed at you in your absence will strike her, and mortally,' said Redworth. 'Then I say it is terrible to have a friend,' said Diana, with her bosom heaving. 'Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.' His unstressed observation hit a bell in her head, and set it reverberating.
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