" She paused.

Then in a gust of confidence and gratitude, "I will live all my days for you, Tom!" she sobbed out.
"Go over into the other corner of the carriage, away from the platform," said Ossipon solicitously.

She let her saviour settle her comfortably, and he watched the coming on of another crisis of weeping, still more violent than the first.

He watched the symptoms with a sort of medical air, as if counting seconds.

He heard the guard's whistle at last.