Mimi could not for a long time think at all, or recollect anything, except that Adam loved her and was saving her from a terrible danger.

When she had time to think, later on, she wondered when she had any ignorance of the fact that Adam loved her, and that she loved him with all her heart.

Everything, every recollection however small, every feeling, seemed to fit into those elemental facts as though they had all been moulded together.

The main and crowning recollection was her saying goodbye to Sir Nathaniel, and entrusting to him loving messages, straight from her heart, to Adam Salton, and of his bearing when--with an impulse which she could not check--she put her lips to his and kissed him.

Later, when she was alone and had time to think, it was a passing grief to her that she would have to be silent, for a time, to Lilla on the happy events of that strange mission.
She had, of course, agreed to keep all secret until Adam should give her leave to speak.
The advice and assistance of Sir Nathaniel was a great help to Adam in carrying out his idea of marrying Mimi Watford without publicity.