Reflexion arrived but in time and established a provisional serenity.

It was perhaps exactly this that enabled her to say with duplicity: "And you're going-- ?" "You almost deserve it when you abandon me so." She shook her head as if this were not worth taking up.

"My absence has helped you--as I've only to look at you to see.

It was my calculation, and I'm justified.

You're not where you were.