The hazard that throws two people into each other's company is the same hazard that separates them.

It is not significant either way....

I liked you--missed you....

Our companionship had been pleasant." "Very," she said, quietly.
He nodded: "Then chance became busy; your duties led you elsewhere--mine set me adrift in channels once familiar--" "Is that all you see in our estrangement ?" "What ?" he asked, abruptly.
"Estrangement," she repeated, tranquilly.

"That is the real word for it.
Because the old intimacy is gone.