She would have liked to have said that to Miss Collett. She would have liked to have taken Brodrick to the seat at the end of the alley and have said to him, "It's all perfectly right. Don't be an idiot and miss it. You can't do a better thing for yourself than marry her, and it's the only way, you know, you can pay her back. Don't you see that you're cruel to her? That it's you that's making her ill? She can't look pretty when she's ill, but she'd be quite pretty if you made her happy."
But all she said was, "He's like that, is he?" And she went out to where he waited for her.
"Have you got to go?" he said.
She said, Yes, she was half expecting Nina Lempriere.
"The fiery lady?"
"Yes."
"You may as well stay. She won't be there," said Brodrick.
But Jane did not stay.
The whole family turned out on to the Heath to see them go. At the end of the road they looked back and saw it there. Sophy Levine was holding up the Baby to make him wave to Jane.
"Why did you tell them?" she said reproachfully to Brodrick.