The grievance would have been slight had she known it from the first; but what schoolboy could stand such a shock, when the loss amounted to two-thirds of his remaining wealth?
Lily did not blame her lover.

She did not even think that he ought to stay.

She would not allow herself to suppose that he could propose anything that was unkind.

But she felt her loss, and more than once, as she knelt at her prayers, she wiped a hidden tear from her eyes.
Crosbie also was thinking of his departure more than he should have done during Mr Boyce's sermon.

"It's easy listening to him," Mrs Hearn used to say of her husband's successor.