Love and integrity.

What next?
Worldly wisdom.
And was there really more than worldly wisdom in her refusal to go aboard a sinking ship?
She now knew it was otherwise.

'Begad,' he said, 'I'll try her again.' The fact was he had so set his heart upon Sally, and Sally alone, that nothing was to be allowed to baulk him; and his reasoning was purely formal.
Anniversaries having been unpropitious, he waited on till a bright day late in May--a day when all animate nature was fancying, in its trusting, foolish way, that it was going to bask out of doors for evermore.

As he rode through Long-Ash Lane it was scarce recognizable as the track of his two winter journeys.

No mistake could be made now, even with his eyes shut.