To go now will be to betray fear, and she--no, she will not give in, any way, she will never show the white feather.

She will finish this hour with Lady Rylton, whatever it may cost her.
"Really ?" asks Gower.

He looks as if he would have persuaded her to come with him, but something in her manner convinces him of the folly of persistence.
"Yes, really," returns she, after which he goes down the steps again.

They can hear him going, slowly this time, as if reluctantly, and step by step.

There doesn't seem to be a run left in him.
"How absurd it is, this confusion of titles!" says Lady Rylton, as the last unsatisfactory step is lost to them in the distance.