But from the exit of the station he walked slowly, in part to calm himself, to assume his ordinary appearance, and in part to think over the comedy he was going to play.
Emmeline met him at the door, herself too much flurried to notice anything peculiar in her husband's aspect.

She repeated the story with which he was already acquainted.
'And really, after all, I am so glad!' was her conclusion.

'I didn't think she had really gone; all the afternoon I've been expecting to see her back again.

But she won't come now, and it is a good thing to have done with the wretched business.

I only hope she will tell the truth to her people.