"Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of these things." * * * * * Washed and brushed and greatly refreshed, Jane stood at the window of her compartment as the train steamed into Charing Cross.
The doctor was stationed exactly opposite the door when her carriage came to a standstill; mere chance, and yet, to Jane, it seemed so like him to have taken up his position precisely at the right spot on that long platform.

An enthusiastic lady patient had once said of Deryck Brand, with more accuracy of definition than of grammar: "You know, he is always so very JUST THERE." And this characteristic of the doctor had made him to many a very present help in time of trouble.
He was through the line of porters and had his hand upon the handle of Jane's door in a moment.

Standing at the window, she took one look at the firm lean face, now alight with welcome, and read in the kind, steadfast eyes of her childhood's friend a perfect sympathy and comprehension.

Then she saw behind him her aunt's footman, and her own maid, who had been given a place in the duchess's household.

In another moment she was on the platform and her hand was in Deryck's.
"That is right, dear," he said.