Well, he was to know within the month, for though she kept him awhile at bay, left him restless and wretched during a series ofdays on each of which he asked about her only again to have to turnaway, she ended his trial by receiving him where she had alwaysreceived him. Yet she had been brought out at some hazard into thepresence of so many of the things that were, consciously, vainly,half their past, and there was scant service left in the gentlenessof her mere desire, all too visible, to check his obsession andwind up his long trouble. That was clearly what she wanted; theone thing more for her own peace while she could still put out herarm. He was so affected by her state that, once seated by herchair, he was moved to let everything go; it was she herselftherefore who brought him back, took up again, before she dismissedhim, her last word of the other time. She showed how she wished toleave their business in order. "I'm not sure you comprehended.You've nothing to wait for more. It HAS come."