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Meanwhile , my dear Bernard , be as happy as your brilliant talents should properly make you , and believe me yours ever , `` G.W. `` P.S. . It is perhaps as well that I should say that I am leaving in consequence of something that happened last evening , but not -- by any traceable process -- in consequence of the talk we had together . I may also add that I am in very good health and spirits . '' Bernard lost no time in learning that his friend had in fact departed by the eight o'clock train -- the morning was now well advanced ; and then , over his breakfast , he gave himself up to meditative surprise . What had happened during the evening -- what had happened after their conversation in Gordon 's room ? He had gone to Mrs. Vivian 's -- what had happened there ? Bernard found it difficult to believe that he had gone there simply to notify her that , having talked it over with an intimate friend , he gave up her daughter , or to mention to the young lady herself that he had ceased to desire the honor of her hand .