It would be a tiresome, useless complication.
But why shouldn't she go up to London for three or four days and have a good time with him there?
Enid was well aware that absence frequently makes the heart grow fonder, and that distance does lend enchantment to the view.

But she would not have put it in those exact words.
At last she began walking towards the house, telling herself that she felt oddly tired, and that it would be very pleasant, for once, to have a solitary cup of tea.

Her house-parlourmaid was shaping very nicely.

Thus the girl had evidently brought the lamps into the sitting-room, though she had forgotten to draw the curtains.
Enid knocked and rang.

She had a theory that the possession of a latchkey by their mistress makes servants slow to answer the door.
"There's a person waiting for you in the drawing-room, ma'am.