His mother had once told him that he had something of the woman in him.

And certainly no one was more capable of filling up the outlines of the story he had just heard and giving it life and colouring.
"I admired her before," he said to himself, "but I shall look upon her as a saint now.

She has had her martyrdom, if ever woman had, and has fought her fight nobly;" and then, with that clear insight that seemed natural to him, he added, "She knows that he has come right, and this is the secret of her serenity," which was indeed the truth, though not the whole truth; for Dinah Templeton had indeed realised her Master's words, that through much tribulation we must enter into the kingdom of heaven.
When Mrs.Godfrey rejoined Malcolm her husband was with her.

Malcolm always declared that Colonel Godfrey was his typical and ideal Englishman.

He was a well-built, soldierly-looking man of unusually fine presence.