It is easy to do dramatic things, to make your exit; but to slip away
when you want to stay, when your whole heart is aching to stay, to make
exits so silently and unostentatiously that the ones you long to miss
you hardly know that you are gone--that is the hardest of all.
I knew before I left Mrs. Cromer's side that I was going to run
away--away from Cheneston and Walter Markham and mother and father.