`` Miles , how did you come here ? I thought you were in Europe . '' `` I did travel at first . I came down here by chance , and resolved to cut myself utterly adrift from my old life and see if I could not forget you . I was not very successful . '' He smiled down into her eyes . `` And you were going away tomorrow . How perilously near we have been to not meeting ! But how are we going to explain all this to our friends along shore ? '' `` I think we had better not explain it at all . I will go away tomorrow , as I intended , and you can quietly follow soon . Let ` Young Si ' remain the mystery he has always been . '' `` That will be best -- decidedly so . They would never understand if we did tell them . And I daresay they would be very much disappointed to find I was not a murderer or a forger or something of that sort . They have always credited me with an evil past . And you and I will go back to our own world , Ethel . You will be welcome there now , sweet -- my family , too , have learned a lesson , and will do anything to promote my happiness . '' Agnes drove Ethel Lennox to the station next day . The fierce wind that had swept over land and sea seemed to have blown away all the hazy vapours and oppressive heats in the air , and the morning dawned as clear and fresh as if the sad old earth with all her passionate tears had cleansed herself from sin and stain and come forth radiantly pure and sweet .
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