The sooner it was done the better, for then they would avoid having to contend with reflection or afterthought.
"Yes, darling, let us go immediately.

I was coming to take you.

I know where we can find a carriage.

Before daylight we will be far away: so far that no one will ever be able to overtake us." She opened her drawers, but closed them again violently, without taking anything therefrom, as her excitement increased.

Could it be possible that she had suffered such torture for so many weeks! She had done everything in her power to drive him from her mind, to try to convince herself that he cared no more for her, until at last she thought she had succeeded in doing so.