"Is there anything troubles you ?" she said, as she sat leaning against him after their dinner in the hotel at Dover.
"What should trouble me on such a day as this ?" "If there is anything, tell it me.

I do not mean to say now, at this moment,--unless you wish it.

Whatever may be your troubles, it shall be my greatest happiness, as it is my first duty, to lessen them if I can." The promise was very well.

It all went in the right direction.

It showed him that she was at any rate prepared to take a part in the joint work of their life.