When she came back a quarter of an hour later, thinking to find the room empty, he was standing there as before, never having apparently moved.

His manner had quite changed.

He seemed to take a resigned and entirely different view of circumstances.
'Christine, here's a paragraph in the paper hinting at a secret wedding, and I'm blazed if it don't point to you.

Well, since this was to happen, I'll bear it, and not complain.

All volk have crosses, and this is one of mine.