"The cur! Ah, she never could have married him; she must have discovered his contemptible nature." His first impulse was to hurry to Ashurst.

"Not for my own sake," he reasoned, "but just to be there.

I would never show that I knew how he had treated her.

She should not have an instant's mortification in my presence.

But she might just see, without being told, that I loved her through it all." He even rose, and began to study a time-table; but he frowned a little and put it down, and went and looked out of the window a while.