"You see," he added absently, "if I hear that Harry Feversham is in Omdurman, something might perhaps be done--from Suakin or Assouan, something might be done.
Which way did Ethne go ?" "Over to the water." "She had her dog with her, I hope." "The dog followed her," said Mrs.Adair.
"I am glad," said Durrance.

He knew quite well what comfort the dog would be to Ethne in this bad hour, and perhaps he rather envied the dog.

Mrs.Adair wondered that at a moment of such distress to him he could still spare a thought for so small an alleviation of Ethne's trouble.

She watched him cross the garden to the stile in the hedge.

He walked steadily forward upon the path like a man who sees.