Both Alaric and Norman had shown a great distaste to meet each other.

But Harry's heart softened towards Gertrude.
Her conduct during her husband's troubles had been so excellent, that he could not but forgive her the injuries which he fancied he owed to her.
Everything was now prepared for their departure.

They were to sail on the very day after Alaric's liberation, so as to save him from the misery of meeting those who might know him.

And now Harry came with Mrs.Woodward to bid farewell, probably for ever on this side the grave, to her whom he had once looked on as his own.

How different were their lots now! Harry was Mr.Norman of Normansgrove, immediately about to take his place as the squire of his parish, to sit among brother magistrates, to decide about roads and poachers, parish rates and other all-absorbing topics, to be a rural magistrate, and fill a place among perhaps the most fortunate of the world's inhabitants.