Two on a Tower Chapter 41

In which three years of earnest astronomical toil and distant reflections pass quietly for Swithin at the Cape, while the shadows of the past linger upon his homeward thoughts, drawing him once more to Welland and its familiar faces. Upon his return, a delicate and poignant encounter at the tower reveals the irrevocable passage of time and the sorrow that attends faded beauty and unreckoned hopes.