No , do n't try to comfort me , Miss Tranquil , because I wo n't be comforted ! '' When a person has made up her mind to be miserable you just have to let her be miserable . I almost dreaded to see Doctor John for fear he would be in despair , too , without any confidence in Marcella . But when he came I saw I need n't have worried . The light had all gone out of his eyes , but there was a calm , steady patience in them . `` She will come back to me , Miss Tranquil , '' he said . `` I know what people are saying , but that does not trouble me . They do not know Marcella as I do . She promised and she will keep her word -- keep it joyously and gladly , too . If I did not know that I would not wish its fulfilment . When she is free she will turn her back on that brilliant world and all it offers her and come back to me . My part is to wait and believe . '' So Doctor John waited and believed . After a little while the excitement died away and people forgot Marcella . We never heard from or about her , except a paragraph now and then in the society columns of the city paper the doctor took . We knew she was sent to school for three years ; then the Barrys took her abroad . She was presented at court . When the doctor read this -- he was with me at the time -- he put his hand over his eyes and sat very silent for a long time . I wondered if at last some momentary doubt had crept into his mind -- if he did not fear that Marcella must have forgotten him . The paper told of her triumph and her beauty and hinted at a titled match .
Was it probable or even possible that she would be faithful XXXXX him after all this ?
If about because for from in over that to while