It is all clearer now.

You have shown me that I was right in my first impulse, and that is all I can say for myself.

I shall pray all my life that it will do you no harm in the end." She remained silent, for a moment adjusting her veil, preparing to go.
Presently she spoke again: "I shall always want to know about you--what is happening to you.

How could it be otherwise ?" She was half realising one of the deepest things in existence, that the closest bond between two human beings is a bond of secrecy upon a thing which vitally, fatally concerns both or either.

It is a power at once malevolent and beautiful.