But, then, it was true he had none, and she had said she would run away.

She would have done it too.

O, if it had been anything but sickness and possible death at the other end--and his mother, his own little mother! Nothing else would have kept him from staying to protect Elizabeth.
What a fool he had been! There were questions he might have asked, and plans they might have made, all those beautiful days and those moon-silvered nights.

If any other man had done the same, he would have thought him lacking mentally.

But here he had maundered on, and never found out the all-important things about her.