At the end he regarded her, and his look said: 'Behold the man who is your husband!' But at length there came one letter distinct from all the rest; it had the seal of a Government office.

With eyes which scarcely credited what they saw Mutimer read some twenty or thirty words from a Minister of the Crown, a gentleman of vigorously Radical opinions, who had 'heard with much regret that the undertaking conceived and pursued with such single-hearted zeal' had come to an untimely end.

Mutimer rushed to Adela like a schoolboy who has a holiday to announce.
'Read that now! What do you think of that?
Now there's some hope of a statesman like that!' Adela gave forth the letter in a voice which was all too steady.

7 But she said: 'I am very glad.

It must gratify you.