He had joined the Clayfords.

And what was his fear at Stockholm?
The slovenly soldier! Yes, he had given her the real reason after all during that dinner on the balcony at Hasselbacken.

He feared to become the slovenly soldier if he idled longer in England.

It was not because he was tired of her, that the separation had come.

Thus she reasoned, and she reasoned just in one little respect wrong.