The best plan would be to bring the interview to an end as quickly as possible, so she should not dwell too long on her sorrow.
"If I have done anything to help you, my dear lady," he said with gentle courtesy, rising from his chair and taking her hand again, "or can do anything for you in the future, I shall be most happy, and you must certainly let me know.

And now, may I not ask you to go upstairs and lie down.

You are greatly fatigued--I assure you I feel for you most deeply." But his mind was still disturbed.

Ruth and Jack wondered at his quiet as he sat beside them on the way back to MacFarlane's--gazing out of the carriage window, his clean-shaven, placid face at rest, his straight thin lips close shut.

He hardly spoke until they reached the house, and then it was when he helped Ruth alight.