Did I understand you to say that you go away tomorrow?
For three weeks.

Ah, then we may be getting ready to remove when you come back.' The change that had come over him was remarkable.

He could not keep his seat, and began to pace the end of the room.

Seeing no possibility of prolonging the talk for her own purposes, Rhoda accepted this dismissal, and with the briefest leave-taking went her way to Mrs.
Cosgrove's.
She was deeply agitated.

Monica had not attended that lecture of Miss Barfoot's, and so, it was evident, had purposely deceived her husband.
To what end?
Where were those hours spent?
Mildred Vesper's report supplied grounds for sombre conjecture, and the incident at Sloane Square Station, the recollection of Monica and Barfoot absorbed in talk, seemed to have a possible significance which fired Rhoda with resentment.
Her arrival at Mrs.Cosgrove's was too late.