There was an immense deal to tell on both sides, for it was months since any letter had passed between them.
"We have everything to be thankful for," Mrs.Davenant said, when the stories on both sides had been told, "and it seems to me that it is, to no slight extent, due to Walter that we have passed so well through the last two troubled years.

It was Jabez Whitefoot who first stood our friend, and who saved the castle from being burned, and his goodwill was earned by Walter's friendship with his son.

Then Mr.Conyers stood between us and the council, who would certainly have confiscated everything, had it not been for him.

And, although he always expressed himself as greatly indebted to you also, he said that, so far as he understood from his wife, it was to Walter's foresight and arrangement that his wife and daughter owed their rescue.
"How was it that Walter was so forward in the matter, Fergus ?" "Walter was perhaps more particularly interested in the matter than I was," Captain Davenant said, with a smile.

"His thoughts were running in that direction." Walter coloured up, and Mrs.Davenant, who was looking at him with some surprise, at her husband's words, broke into a laugh.
"You don't mean to say, Walter, that you have been falling in love, at your age ?" "You forget, dear," Captain Davenant said, coming to Walter's rescue, "that Walter is no longer a boy.