What then?
It becomes my business, and there's only one way for it." "But it may not be so very bad, John.

Had we not best wait until after he sees these people to-morrow ?" "They may give him little time, lass.

But I'll have a care that I don't go so far that I can't put back again.

Now, mother, there's no use holding me.

It's got to be done, and there's no sense in shirking it." He detached her fingers from his sleeve, pushed her gently back into an arm-chair, and hurried from the house.
In less than half an hour the Admiral was whirled into Victoria Station and found himself amid a dense bustling throng, who jostled and pushed in the crowded terminus.