There would be a little breathing-space at Ritzen before she went into that new life that awaited her beyond the hills.
Somehow she felt as if those hills guarded her destiny.

She did not fear the future, but she looked forward to it with a certain awe.
Paramount within her, was the desire for Guy, the sight of his handsome, debonair countenance, the ring of his careless laugh.

As soon as she saw Guy she knew she would be at home, even in the land of strangers, as she had never been at the Manor since the advent of her father's second wife.

She had no misgivings on that point, or she had never come across the world to him thus, making all return impossible.

For there could be be no going back for her.
She had taken a definite and irrevocable step.