She knew that it should be her object to avoid any further special conversation on that subject which they had discussed up among the rocks.

She knew that she could give him no comfort, and that he could give none to her.

It would seem that he was willing to let the remembrance of the scene pass away, so that it should be as though it had never been; and surely it was not for her to disturb so salutary an arrangement! But yet she was up to bid him Godspeed as he went.

She could not bear,--so she excused the matter to herself,--she could not bear to think that he should regard her as ungrateful.

She knew all that he had done for them.