Why did you leave the lamps ?--just to mock at me?
Good-bye.

I have left my wedding-ring on this paper.

You'll know I couldn't do that, if I ever meant to come back! She rose, and moved a small table in front of the ruined picture.
On it she placed, first, the parcel she had brought with her, which contained papers and small personal possessions belonging to her husband; in front of the packet she laid the five letters of Madame de Pastourelles, her own letter in an envelope addressed to him, and upon it her ring.
Then she put on her hat and veil, tying the veil closely round her face, and, with one last look round the room, she crept to the door and unlocked it.

So quietly did she descend the stairs that Mrs.
Gibbs, who was listening sharply, with the kitchen door open, for any sound of her departure, heard nothing.

The outer door opened and shut without the smallest noise, and the slender, veiled figure was quickly lost in the darkness and the traffic of the street..