They left the square on foot; neither looked back on the shuttered windows of Lyndwood House.
Selina spoke, and her pure voice was steady.
"Now I will go home; we return to Bristol to-morrow."
She added where they were staying, and remarked on her father's grief and patience.
"He will be waiting for me," she added, and spoke of the life that was before her: peace and yet not loneliness, quiet but not desolation.
"It is all over," she said, and kissed Susannah.
They walked together in silence until they came to the Strand and saw the river flash in the evening sun between the houses.
"Did any tell you," asked Miss Chressham then, "what he said: 'I always believed in the immortality of the soul'?"
"I did not know," answered Selina. "It was a strange thing to say."
"A strange thing for him to believe," said Susannah. "But I am glad, are not you?"