I saw how hard she tried--for my sake.
It's the crying that's most dangerous of all." "Nothing could be worse," the doctor said and he went away with a grave face, a deeply troubled man.
When Dowie went back to the Tower room she found Robin standing at a window looking out on the moorside.

She turned and spoke and Dowie saw that intuition had told her what had been talked about.
"I will try to be good, Dowie," she said.

"But it comes--it comes because--suddenly I know all over again that I can never _see_ him any more.

If I could only _see_ him--even a long way off! But suddenly it all comes back that I can never _see_ him again--Never!" Later she begged Dowie not to come to her in the night if she heard sounds in her room.
"It will not hurt you so much if you don't see me," she said.

"I'm used to being by myself.