No escape, save by Slimy's aid.
He determined not to face the possibility of Slimy's failing in his word; otherwise, anxiety would make him desperate.

He recognised now, for the first time fully, how much it meant to him, that meeting with Ida.

The shock he had experienced on hearing her sentence and beholding her face as she left the court had not, apparently, produced lasting results; his weakness surprised him when he looked back upon it.

In a day or two he had come to regard the event as finally severing him from Ida, and a certain calm ensuing hereupon led to the phase which ultimately brought him to Maud once more.

But Waymark's introspection was at fault; he understood himself less in proportion as he felt that the ground was growing firmer under his feet.