I was afraid to agitate her by saying more; I left all other questions to be asked at a fitter and a quieter time.

You will understand from this how terribly she suffers, how wildly and strangely she acts under violent agitation; and you will not interpret against her what she said or did when you saw her on Wednesday last.
"We only returned to the house in time to hasten away from it to the train.

Perhaps it was better for us so--better that we had only a moment left to look back before the turn in the road hid the last of Combe-Raven from our view.

There was not a soul we knew at the station; nobody to stare at us, nobody to wish us good-by.

The rain came on again as we took our seats in the train.