It simply is important: it makes its own weight; and those whom it concerns must put aside other matters until it has been accomplished.

He would tell her: they would accept it for a moment together, a moment during which he would also ascertain whether she was well and strong, with a good chance of happiness--God protect her--in the future that he should not know.

Then he would go on to Dr Drummond's.
The wind had risen when he went out again; it blew a longer blast, and the trees made a steady sonorous rhythm in it.

The sky was full of clouds that dashed upon the track of a failing moon; there was portent everywhere, and a hint of tumult at the end of the street.

No two ways led from Finlay's house to his first destination.