It took him some time, his eyes were so full of tears.

In view of her approaching marriage with Spencer Wray, his heart had felt very heavy.

It was something lighter now.

Young Granger was not the man he would have chosen for Edith, but he liked him far better than he did the other, and felt that his child was safe now.
He went to his wife's room, and found her with Edith's letter crushed in her hand.

She was sitting motionless, her face pale and rigid, her eyes fixed and stony and her lips tight against her teeth.