We're partners, you know, and we lived here a good many years alone together.

He wouldn't leave me--not for the long voyage--without a word.

Yes, you go, my dear, you go! I'll stay here and wait for him." She saw that no persuasion of hers would move him, and it seemed useless to remain.

An intolerable restlessness urged her, moreover, to be gone.
The awful inertia of the past two hours had turned into a fevered desire for action.

It was the swing of the pendulum, and she felt that if she did not respond to it she would go mad.
Her knees were still trembling under her, but she controlled them and turned to the door.