Dan smiled, a sombre, reminiscent smile.

"You don't mean to say you still take Mamma seriously? I never did."

"But—Mark—"

"Or him either."

It hurt her like some abominable blasphemy.

XVII

Nothing would ever happen. She would stay on in Morfe, she and Mamma: without Mark, without Dan, without the Sutcliffes….

They were going….

They were gone.

XXVIII