Two days passed.

In spite of the warnings that he had received, Ovid remained in London.
The indisputable authority of Benjulia had no more effect on him than the unanswerable arguments of Mrs.Gallilee.

"Recent circumstances" (as his mother expressed it) "had strengthened his infatuated resistance to reason." The dreaded necessity for Teresa's departure had been hastened by a telegram from Italy: Ovid felt for Carmina's distress with sympathies which made her dearer to him than ever.

On the second morning after the visit to the Zoological Gardens, her fortitude had been severely tried.

She had found the telegram under her pillow, enclosed in a farewell letter.