Besides, there is really no need now for you to explain anything.

The stranger whose visits here have caused us so much pain and anxiety will trouble us no more.

She leaves England of her own free will, after a conversation with me which has perfectly succeeded in composing and satisfying her.

Not a word more, my dear, to me, or to my nephew, or to any other human creature, of what has happened in the dining-room to-day.

When we next meet, let it be understood between us that the past is henceforth and forever _buried to oblivion_.