In her helpless heartbreak and tragedy Robin needed her as she needed no one else in the world.
"She is so broken and weakened that she may not live," he said in the end.

"No one can care for her as you can." "I can care for her, poor lamb.

I'll come when your lordship's ready for me, be it soon or late." "Thank you, Dowie," he said again.

"It will be soon." And when he shook hands with her and she opened the front door for him, she stood and watched him, thinking very deeply as he walked down the street with the wind-blown dust and scraps of paper whirling about him..