took her
hand to say good-bye she said:

"Perhaps we shall meet again--perhaps not. I don't know when I shall
be back in London. I'm soon going over to America with Fanny. But don't
think too badly of me."

"I? How could I think badly of you?"

"Oh, yes--you might! There are things I can't explain which may easily
have given you a nasty impression of me. If I could explain them perhaps
you would remember me more pleasantly. Anyhow, I shall always think of
you as one of my _friends_. Good-bye."

And then she moved away, and he went to the door.

But just as he was going he turned round and said:

"Au revoir!"

She made a little kind gesture with her left hand, but she said nothing.

At that moment she was thinking of Adela.

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