He will never stand by idle whilst other folks are suffering danger and loss." "He is a good man," answered Dinah, and with her these words stood for much.
Towards nightfall Lord Desborough came in with rather an anxious look upon his face.

His eyes first sought the face of his wife; but seeing her lie in the tranquil sleep which was her best medicine, he was satisfied of her well being, and without putting his usual string of questions he began abruptly to ask of Dinah: "Have you heard news of this terrible fire ?" Both nurses looked earnestly at him.
"Is it not yet extinguished, my lord ?" "Extinguished?
no, nor likely to be, if all we hear be true.

I have not seen it with mine own eyes.

I was at Whitehall all the day, and heard no more than that some houses and churches in the east had been burned.

But they say now that the flames are spreading this way with all the violence of a tempest at sea, and those who have been to see say that it is like a great sea of fire, rushing over everything so that nothing can hinder it.