The unknown sowers of the seed.

Would the reapers of the harvest remember them?
Beyond giving up her visits to the house, she had made no attempt to avoid meeting Phillips; and at public functions and at mutual friends they sometimes found themselves near to one another.

It surprised her that she could see him, talk to him, and even be alone with him without its troubling her.

He seemed to belong to a part of her that lay dead and buried--something belonging to her that she had thrust away with her own hands: that she knew would never come back to her.
She was still interested in his work and keen to help him.

It was going to be a stiff fight.