I've got most of my things packed up." "I expect he would.

But you stay till the morning.

You can have my study.

It's quieter than this." Perhaps no more hospitable invitation had been issued in Willoughby, and Gilks knew it.

And it was too welcome not to be accepted gratefully.
The captain soon afterwards departed, leaving the penitent behind him, subdued and softened, not by any sermon or moral lecture, which at such a time Riddell felt would be only out of place, but by sheer force of kindness--that virtue which costs so little, yet achieves so much.
In this new excitement the captain had for the moment forgotten young Wyndham, but he was soon reminded of that afflicted youth's existence on reaching the Big.
He was there, waiting impatiently.