I still live where you used to come as a boy....

How strange life is!...

Good day, Lane." Lane felt more than satisfied with the result of that interview.
Joshua Iden would go home and tell Mel's mother, and that would surely make the victory easier.

She would be touched in her mother's heart; she would understand Mel now, and divine Lane's mission; and she would plead with her husband to consent, and to bring Mel back home.
Lane was counting on that.

He must never even hint such a hope, but nevertheless he had it, he believed in it.