The odds were too great.

They must not think of marriage, for the present, and they must cease to meet.

Perhaps some day--she tried to comfort herself with the thought--perhaps some day, years afterwards and under different circumstances, they might.
-- With Ellery she felt certain she could accomplish nothing by argument or persuasion.

She knew him well enough by this time to realize that, if his mind was made up, all Trumet and all creation could not change it.
He would keep on his course, and, if wrecked, would go down with colors set and helm lashed.

But Grace, perhaps she did not fully realize the situation.