True, it was what she had bargained for.

But yet it did not satisfy her.

She was not at her ease with him, and she began to think she never would be.
As to Hugh, she hardly knew how to proceed; but she finally wrote him a friendly note, concurring with his suggestion that they should not meet again for a little while--"only for a little while, Hugh," she added, almost in spite of herself, "for I can't afford to lose a friend like you." And she did not guess how the heart-cry of her loneliness echoed through the words..