To make the event more solemn still to him, he had just before had sharp words with her, and left her.

He told Lucy this, as nothing about him appears in the newspaper.
And the cause of the quarrel was, of all people, she we've left behind us." "Do you mean Marty ?" Grace spoke the words but perfunctorily.

For, pertinent and pointed as Melbury's story was, she had no heart for it now.
"Yes.

Marty South." Melbury persisted in his narrative, to divert her from her present grief, if possible.

"Before he went away she wrote him a letter, which he kept in his, pocket a long while before reading.
He chanced to pull it out in Mrs.Charmond's, presence, and read it out loud.