She was sure of this,--that if she must lose one or the other, her mother or her husband, then she would lose her mother.
When she returned to The Nurseries, her husband, according to agreement came out to her at once.

She had bidden adieu to all the others; but at the last moment her father put his hand into the carriage, so that she could take it and kiss it.

'Mamma is so sad,' she said to him; 'go home to her and comfort her.' Of course the old man did go home, but he was aware that there would for some time be little comfort there either for him or for his wife.

He and his sons had been too powerful for her in arranging the marriage; but now, now that it was done, nothing could stop her reproaches.

He had been made to think it wrong on one side to shut his girl up, and now from the other side he was being made to think that he had done very wrong in allowing her to escape.
It had been arranged that they should be driven out of Cambridge to the railway station at Audley End on their way to London; so that they might avoid the crowd of people who would know them at the Cambridge station.
As soon as they had got away from the door of Robert Bolton's house, the husband attempted to comfort his young wife.