Then MacPherson, coming down the office steps, called to him; and, with courteous adieux, the two men departed in company.

Now I think of it, there were two couples who had come so far with us, but at the Rhone Glacier they exchanged their mutually demonstrative adieux, and I thought the couple who came on would never have done waving to the couple who stayed behind.

She never made up and rehearsed in imagination little scenes of a melting pathos where eternal adieux were spoken amid tears.