All the time they had been married he could be induced only once before to come and stay with them for a few days.

He had had a rather unhappy boyhood; and it made him a silent man.

But no doubt, concluded Fyne, as if dealing portentously with a mystery, we two sailors should find much to say to one another.
This point was never settled.

I was detained in town from week to week till it seemed hardly worth while to go back.

But as I had kept on my rooms in the farmhouse I concluded to go down again for a few days.
It was late, deep dusk, when I got out at our little country station.