She did not doubt, she said, but that what he had written was strictly true, and she did not doubt his honour.

But he must see that their relationship was impossible.

She couldn't marry the man who appeared actually to like the company of such a woman, nor could she do other than feel that the end would seem to him as plain as it did to her, and that he would leave the Church, or at any rate such a ministry in it as she could share.

She had told her people that she was no longer engaged in order that he should feel free, but she would ever remember the man as she had known him, whom she had loved, and whom she loved still.
It was in the afternoon that Peter got the letter, and he was just setting off for the hospital.

When he had read it, he put on his cap and set off in the opposite direction.