When she put
him from her, and he realised that she meant it he passed completely
out of her life. He was at the railway station by the time she
reached the house, and from that day to this they had never met.
Garth evidently considered the avoidance of meetings to be his
responsibility, and he never failed her in this. Once or twice she
went on a visit to houses where she knew him to be staying. He
always happened to have left that morning, if she arrived in time
for luncheon; or by an early afternoon train, if she was due for
tea. He never timed it so that there should be tragic passings of
each other, with set faces, at the railway stations; or a formal
word of greeting as she arrived and he departed,--just enough to
awaken all the slumbering pain and set people wondering. Jane
remembered with shame that this was the sort of picturesque tragedy
she would have expected from Garth Dalmain. But the man who had
surprised her by his dignified acquiescence in her decision,
continued to surprise her by the strength with which he silently
accepted it as final and kept out of her way.
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