It's all right, or as right as it is likely to be for many a long day." Then she went.
A week later Godfrey was allowed to get out of bed and was even carried to sit in the autumn sunshine among other shattered men.

Now he learned all there was to know; that the German rush had been stayed, that they had been headed off from Calais, and that the armies were entrenching opposite to each other and preparing for the winter, the Allied cause having been saved, as it were, by a miracle, at any rate for the while.
He was still very weak, with great pain in his head, and could not read at all, which grieved him.
So the time went by, till at last he was told that he was to be sent to England, as his bed was wanted and he could recover there as well as in France.

Two days later he started in a hospital train and suffered much upon the journey, although it was broken for a night at Boulogne.

Still he came safely to London, and was taken to a central hospital where next day several doctors held a consultation over him.

When it was over they asked him if he had friends in London and wished to stay there.