"Of trying to be young when he didn't feel it. I thought he'd see how impossible it was. But that's the sad part of it. He would have felt young, Barbara, if you'd loved him. If I'd loved him I could have kept him young. I told you," she said, "it was all my fault."
"You told me Ralph and I would never be old. Is that what you meant?"
"Yes."
They sat silent a moment, looking down through Ralph's window into the
Market Square.
And presently they saw Mr. Waddington pass the corner of the Town Hall and cross the wide, open space to the Dower House.
"You must come back with me, Barbara. If you don't everybody'll know what's happened."
"I can't, Fanny."
"He won't be there. You won't see him till your wedding day. He's going to stay with Granny. He says she isn't very well."
"I'm sorry she isn't well."
"She's perfectly well. That isn't what he's going for."