Shall I go on ?" "If you please." "Well, after this she announced that she meant to see Morris once to say good-bye to him before she went to London, and left me.

Practically the next thing I heard about her was that she was dead." "Did she commit suicide ?" asked Mary.
"It is said not; it is suggested that after Morris's interview with her in the Dead Church--for I gather there was an interview though nobody knows about it, and that's where they met--she fell asleep, which sounds an odd thing to do in the midst of such a gale as was raging on Christmas Eve, and so was overwhelmed.

But who can say?
Impressionable and unhappy women have done such deeds before now, especially if they imagine themselves to have become the object of gossip.

Of course, also, the mere possibility of such a thing having happened on his account would be, and indeed has been, enough to drive a man like Morris crazy with grief and remorse." "What had he to be remorseful for ?" asked Mary.

"If a young woman chanced to fall in love with him, why should he be blamed, or blame himself for that?
After all, people's affections are in their own keeping." "I imagine--very little, if anything.