If you take a cab from Herne Hill, with your luggage, he will be able to find out the driver afterwards, and learn where you went.' 'Then I will drive only as far as the station, and come to Victoria, and you shall meet me there.' The necessity of these paltry arrangements filled her soul with shame.
On the details of her escape she had hardly reflected.

All such considerations were, she deemed, naturally the care of her lover, who would act with promptitude, and so as to spare her a moment's perplexity.

She had imagined everything in readiness within a few hours; on _her_ no responsibility save that of breaking the hated bond.
Inevitably she turned to the wretched thought that Bevis regarded her as a burden.

Yes, he had already his mother and his sisters to support; she ought to have remembered that.
'What time would it be ?' he was asking.
Unable to reply, she pursued her reflections.

She had money, but how to obtain possession of it?
Afterwards, when her flight was accomplished, secrecy, it appeared, would be no less needful than now.