"Thanks very much for finding me the charts.

What I have seen will help me." Helen came in for a moment and their farewell was more or less perfunctory.

Lessingham was almost thankful to escape.

There was an unusual flush in his cheeks, a sense of bitter humiliation in his heart.
All the fervour with which he had started on his perilous quest had faded away.

No sense of duty or patriotism could revive his drooping spirits.