His further presence should not be allowed to detract from her happiness, should not continue to embarrass her.

The past between them was dead; undoubtedly she wished it dead.

Very well, then, he would help her to bury it, now and forever.

Not through any neglect on his part should that past ever again rise up to haunt her in the hour of success.

She had discovered her ideal, she had attained to the height of her ambition.