There was time enough for that later, when the crisis came.

In the meantime, if the worst came to the worst, he could fight to the end.
"I don't think," said Durnovo, who seemed to be following Gordon's thoughts, "that the idea would be so repellent to your sister as you seem to think." And a sudden ray of hope shot athwart the future into which his listener was staring.

It might be so.

One can never tell with women.

Maurice Gordon had had considerable experience of the world, and, after all, he was only building up hope upon precedent.