DEEPENING SHADOWS But before Coulson was married, many small events happened--small events to all but Philip.

To him they were as the sun and moon.

The days when he went up to Haytersbank and Sylvia spoke to him, the days when he went up and she had apparently no heart to speak to any one, but left the room as soon as he came, or never entered it at all, although she must have known that he was there--these were his alternations from happiness to sorrow.
From her parents he always had a welcome.

Oppressed by their daughter's depression of spirits, they hailed the coming of any visitor as a change for her as well as for themselves.

The former intimacy with the Corneys was in abeyance for all parties, owing to Bessy Corney's out-spoken grief for the loss of her cousin, as if she had had reason to look upon him as her lover, whereas Sylvia's parents felt this as a slur upon their daughter's cause of grief.
But although at this time the members of the two families ceased to seek after each other's society, nothing was said.