An attempt to bring about this would not cure Katie's love.

If this were done, would not Katie always think of Charley's wrong?
And, lastly, it was quite clear that Katie had put a check on her own heart.

A meeting now might be the reverse of dangerous.

It would be well that Katie should use herself to be with him now again; well, at any rate, that she should see him once before their proposed journey to Torquay; for, alas, the journey to Torquay was now insisted on by the London physician--insisted on, although he opined with a nod, somewhat less authoritative than his former nod, that the young lady was touched by no organic disease.
'And then,' said Mrs.Woodward to herself, 'his heart is good, and I will speak openly to him.' And so Charley was again invited to the cottage.

After some demurring between him and Norman, he accepted the invitation.
Mrs.Val's dance had taken place in June, and it was now late in October.