For Isobel wrote no more letters, and the proud and outraged Godfrey would rather have died than attempt to open a correspondence--after what he had seen in that London square.

It is true that in his brief epistles home, which were all addressed to his father, since Mrs.Parsons was what is called "a poor scholar," he did try in a roundabout way to learn something about Isobel, but these inquiries, for reasons of his own, his parent completely ignored.

In short, she might have been dead for all that Godfrey heard of her, as he believed that she was dead--to him.
Meanwhile, Isobel had other things to occupy her.

Her mother, as she had said in the letter which Mr.Knight's sense of duty compelled him to steal, became very ill with lung trouble.

The doctors announced that she ought to be taken to Egypt or some other warm climate, such as Algeria, for the winter months.