A more glaring light had dazzled his eyes so that he could see, for a time, no beauty, no attraction, in his first love.

Could he turn to her again?
Would she receive him?
Would she let him dip healing leaves in the waters he had dashed with bitterness?
His heart trembled as he asked these questions, for there was no confident answer.
At last Edwin Florence resolved that he would see Edith once more, and seek to repair the wrong done both to her and to himself.

It was three months after his rejection by Miss Linmore when he came to this resolution.

And then, some weeks elapsed before he could force himself to act upon it.

In all that time he had not met the young girl, nor had he once heard of her.