Then I lifted my hat, and offered my congratulations (more sincere than they sounded) to her and Bob.
"Did I tell you why he is going up ?" I added.

"It is to pass the time until he knows his fate.

If only we could let him know it now!" Mrs.Lascelles glanced toward the mountain, and my eyes followed hers.
A great cloud hid the grim outstanding summit.
"If only you had prevented him from going!" she cried back at me in a last reproach; and to me her tone was conclusive, it rang so true, and so invidiously free from the smaller emotions which it had been my own unhappiness to inspire.

It was the real woman who had spoken out once more, suddenly, perhaps unthinkingly, but obviously from her heart.

And as she turned, I followed her very slowly and without a word; for now was I surely and deservedly undone..