Her people had gone without fires and many other things which some would have considered essential.

But there had always been love.

Looking back on those days, Mary saw with the eyes of the spirit which miss out immaterial material things.
She fled back home.

She took nothing with her but what she stood up in.
Only her friend, Simmons, while Lady Iniscrone was absent from the house, packed up all Mary's belongings, and conveyed them, with the assistance of the coachman, across the lane to Wistaria Terrace.

The servants had made up their minds that Mary was not coming back.
Lady Iniscrone had hoped, in conversation with Lord Iniscrone, that Mary would not give them any trouble.