One of them would go.
"It is I who am going," she said quietly.

"I can't wait any longer.

It was a promise, Corp.

He loves me." They were the only words she said which suggest that there was anything strange about Grizel at this time.
Corp saw how determined she was when she revealed, incidentally, that she had drawn a sum of money out of the bank a week ago, "to be ready." "What will folk say!" he cried.
"You can tell Gavinia the truth when I am gone," she told him.

"She will know better than you what to say to other people." And that was some comfort to him, for it put the burden of invention upon his wife.
So it was Corp who saw Grizel off.