One moment it seemed as though the blank which had come into her life since their rupture had been filled up now that he had come back, the next that it would have been better if he had not.

She had gradually come to regard her profession and all it meant to her in the future as the only thing that mattered, and now in a flash at the sight of him all was uncertainty and distraction.
But for the second time Vane had risked his life for her! Mr.Gay said it was on her account that he had fought with Dorrimore, and Mr.Gay would not tell an untruth.

After all, this was everything.

How could she think otherwise than kindly of a man in spite of his faults, who was ever ready to champion her?
And she dropped off to sleep no longer saying that she would not meet him..