Desertion doesn't mean a sea of water between, it means an ocean of self-will and love-me-first between.

If you hadn't deserted him, as this letter shows, he wouldn't have been here.

I expect he told you so; and if he did, what did you say to him ?" The Young Doctor's eyes were full of decorous mirth and apprehension, for such logic and such impudence as Kitty's was like none he had ever heard.

Yet it was commanding too.
Kitty caught the look in his eyes and blazed up.

"Isn't what I said correct?
Isn't it all true and logical?
And if it is, why do you sit there looking so superior ?" The Young Doctor made a gesture of deprecating apology.