 Edwards was aware of her socially inferior position, still held her father's teachings in reverence, and was increasingly attracted to the Welsh nationalist movement.Flay describes her as riddled with guilt at leaving her mother with a hired companion, frustrated at her dependence on the Garnetts, and reeling at the end of a love affair with Ronald Harding, a married Welsh cellist.On 5 January 1934, having spent the morning burning papers, she threw herself in front of a train near Caerphilly railway station.