For Charlton was still in love with her.

When one has fixed heart and hope and thought on a single person, love does not die with the first consciousness of disappointment.

Love can subsist a long time on old associations.
Besides, Miss Minorkey was not aggressively or obtrusively selfish--she never interfered with anybody else.

But there is a cool-blooded indifference that can be moved by no consideration outside the Universal Ego.

That was Helen..