Ah! she would go now and have done with it.

Every moment that she remained was but an added agony.
Then, at that moment, she heard a voice on the bridge near her, and she crouched close again, in order that the passenger might pass by without noticing her.

She did not wish that anyone should hear the splash of her plunge, or be called on to make ineffectual efforts to save her.

So she would wait again.

The voice drew nearer to her, and suddenly she became aware that it was Souchey's voice.