Then there was Nora, how would she fare?
Owen stood up and began walking about the room, oppressed with a kind of terror.

Presently he returned to the fire and began rearranging the clothes that were drying.

He found that the boots, having been placed too near the fire, had dried too quickly and consequently the sole of one of them had begun to split away from the upper: he remedied this as well as he was able and then turned the wetter parts of the clothing to the fire.

Whilst doing this he noticed the newspaper, which he had forgotten, in the coat pocket.

He drew it out with an exclamation of pleasure.