He was sure you would come home--come home.

He wished he were in power for your sake." So, for a few moments she talked vaguely, and said at last: "But Lady Eglington, she will be glad to see you, such old friends as you are, though not so old as Windlehurst and me--thirty years, over thirty la, la!" They turned to go to Hylda, and came face to face with Kate Heaver.
Kate looked at David as one would look who saw a lost friend return from the dead.

His eyes lighted, he held out his hand to her.
"It is good to see thee here," he said gently.

"And 'tis the cross-roads once again, sir," she rejoined.
"Thee means thee will marry Jasper ?" "Ay, I will marry Jasper now," she answered.

"It has been a long waiting." "It could not be till now," she responded.
David looked at her reflectively, and said: "By devious ways the human heart comes home.