It took him four years to realize.

Then, the question was, what were they to do?
He's a very High Churchman, with all their feeling about marriage; but luckily his pride was wounded.

Anyway, they separated two years ago; and there she is, left high and dry.

People say it was her fault.

She ought to have known her own mind--at twenty! She ought to have held on and hidden it up somehow.