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If I did n't believe Isabel would come round , '' Miss Stackpole added -- `` well , I 'd give up myself . I mean I 'd give _ her _ up ! '' It had occurred to Ralph that , in the conditions , Isabel 's parting with her friend might be of a slightly embarrassed nature , and he went down to the door of the hotel in advance of his cousin , who , after a slight delay , followed with the traces of an unaccepted remonstrance , as he thought , in her eyes . The two made the journey to Gardencourt in almost unbroken silence , and the servant who met them at the station had no better news to give them of Mr. Touchett -- a fact which caused Ralph to congratulate himself afresh on Sir Matthew Hope 's having promised to come down in the five o'clock train and spend the night . Mrs. Touchett , he learned , on reaching home , had been constantly with the old man and was with him at that moment ; and this fact made Ralph say to himself that , after all , what his mother wanted was just easy occasion . The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times . Isabel went to her own room , noting throughout the house that perceptible hush which precedes a crisis .