But Robson did not think it worth while to give this long message of mere politeness.

Indeed, as it did not relate to business, and was only sent to women, Robson forgot all about it, pretty nearly as soon as it was uttered.

So Sylvia went about fretting herself for one or two days, at her hero's apparent carelessness of those who had at any rate treated him more like a friend than an acquaintance of only a few weeks' standing; and then, her anger quenching her incipient regard, she went about her daily business pretty much as though he had never been.

He had gone away out of her sight into the thick mist of unseen life from which he had emerged--gone away without a word, and she might never see him again.

But still there was a chance of her seeing him when he came to marry Molly Corney.