"Nothing nor anybody can harm you now." Some note in his voice attracted her attention.

Strong and square, with hard, forceful face, he sat wholly at his ease among these unfamiliar surroundings, a very tower of refuge, she felt, to the weak.

His face was not strikingly intellectual--she was not sure now about his mouth--but one seemed to feel that dogged nature, the tireless pains by which he would pursue any aim dear to him.

The shadows passed away from her mind.

What was dead was gone! It was not reasonable that she should be haunted all her days by the ghosts of other people's sins.