But she did not hear, for, with a burst of crying, she had hurried into her own room and shut and locked the door.
It was a pity, a measureless pity, as Mary the Mother must have seen, if she could see mortal life at all, that Zoe did not hear him.

It might have altered the future.

As it was, the Devil of Estrangement might well be content with his night's work..