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'You're not to say lass. 'Well, Maud, then. I did see them with the corner of my eye, and my back turned, when they did not think I could spy anything, as plain as I see you now. I laughed again; but I felt an odd pang something of mortification something of regret; but I smiled very gaily, as I stood before the glass, un-making my toilet preparatory to bed. 'Maud Maud fickle Maud!
This idea was firmly embedded in their minds, and they boasted of it, not maliciously but by way of a joke. Uncomplaining, willing, always ready to go, like Gillot, they were certainly capable of making a revolution and then un-making it, starting another, and so on tra-la-la till all was upset and they were ready to be the prey of the first adventurer who happened along.
From now on he must look upon the little mountain girl as a dear, dead wife one whose childish sweetness was part of a time when he had learned to laugh and play, and forget the hard years that had gone to his un-making, not his upbuilding. Truedale travelled back to the place of his new life bearing his books, his unfinished play, and his secret sorrow with him.
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