"After that I shall leave her entirely to herself.

You'll be here in case there's a change ?" "I shall be here," Dominey promised.
The minutes passed into hours, uncounted, unnoticed.

Dominey sat in his easy-chair, stirred by a tumultuous wave of passionate emotion.

The memory of those earlier days of his return came back to him with all their poignant longings.

He felt again the same tearing at the heart-strings, the same strange, unnerving tenderness.