You were obliged to relinquish him once.

Let him go again now." Fay believed she went through a second conflict.

Perhaps there lurked at the back of her mind the image of Michael's set face--set away from her; and that image helped her at last to say to herself, "Yes.

It is right.
I will let him go." But did she really mean it?
For while she said over and over again, "Yes, yes; we must part," she decided that it was necessary to see him just once again, to bid him a last farewell, to strengthen him to live without her.

She could not reason it out, but she knew that it was absolutely essential to the welfare of both that they should see each other just once more before they parted--_for ever_.