By what means was that possibility to be avoided?
There were two ways.

By choosing which of them could she fulfil her determination?
She was no longer so sure as she had been the year before that his career was all in all.

The question recurred to her again and again.

She took it out with her on the hillside with the letters, and pondered and puzzled over it and got never an inch nearer to a solution.

Even her violin failed her in this strait..