But what comfort or consolation could there be within their reach?
There was tea made ready for them, and sandwiches cut from the Inn larder.

And there was sherry in the Inn decanter.

But no such comfort as that was possible for either of them.
They were taken home again in the fly, returning without the escort of Mr.Thompson, and as they went some few words were spoken by Mrs.
Crawley.

"Josiah," she said, "there will be a way out of this, even yet, if you will only hold up your head and trust." "There is a way out of it," he said.

"There is a way.