She had missed that relationship when it stopped: she did not mind telling him that now, since it was abandoned by them both; but not for the world would she have confessed before that she had missed it.

She had loved being asked to come and see his mother, and it was during those visits that she had helped to pile the barricade across the "sister-thoroughfare" with her own hands.

She began to share Michael's sense of the impossibility of that road.

They could not walk down it together, for they had to be either more or less to each other than that.

And, during these visits, she had begun to understand (and her face a little hid itself) what Michael's love meant.