I cannot go to her.

She cannot come to me.

I must wait, hopefully, if not patiently, the issue of events." The thoughts of Hendrickson had once more been turning themselves towards Miss Arden, and he had felt the glow of warmer feelings.

He had even begun to think again of marriage.
"Let that illusion go!" he said.

"It must no longer tempt me to the commission of an act that reason and conscience both pronounce wrong.