"He told me in London.

At first he didn't intend coming down to Mallow at all." "Better, perhaps, if he'd kept to his intention," muttered St.John abstractedly.

He was thinking deeply, his fine brows drawn together.
"You see, he--some of us thought Maryon had come back meaning to fix up things with Nan.

So Peter kept out of the way.

He thinks only of her--her happiness." "His own is out of the question, poor devil!" Kitty nodded.
"And the worst of it is," she went on, "I can't feel quite sure that Nan will be really happy with Roger.