When he suggested that Miss Dalton might resolve to join and help her lover, Charnock had looked alarmed.

This was strange, because although Festing had, for a moment, forgotten Sadie, it was ridiculous to imagine that Bob had done so.

Then why had he started.
There were, however, one or two other things that disturbed Festing, who felt that he had made a rash promise.

But the promise had been made, and he must do his best to carry it out.
He had a fine voyage, and a week after his arrival in the Old Country walked up and down the terrace of a house among the hills in the North of England.

His host was an old friend of the family who had shown Festing some kindness when he was young, and his daughter, Muriel, approved her father's guest.