He had to wait a couple of hours, however, before he could start on his journey, and he spent the time by himself.

His father felt he could be of no use, and Mrs.Rossall found a difficulty in approaching her nephew under such circumstances.
'You will telegraph ?' Mr.Athel said, at the station, by way of expressing himself sympathetically.
The train moved away; and the long, miserable hours of travelling had to be lived through.

Wilfrid's thoughts were all the more anxious from his ignorance of the dead man's position and history.

Even yet Emily had said very little of her parents in writing to him; he imagined all manner of wretched things to connect her silence with this catastrophe.
His fears on her own account were not excessive; the state of vigorous health into which he had grown during late weeks perhaps helped him to avoid thoughts of a desperate kind.

It was bad enough that she lay ill, and from such a cause; he feared nothing worse than illness.