Four nights before this he'd been in one--went into it while he was sitting looking at the fire.

And he saw an old room he knew well in England, and Persis Leigh in it, holding out her hands to him and looking glad and happy.

So he knew he was going to hear good news of her." "A dream--a dream," scoffed the old Doctor.
"Likely--likely," conceded Captain Jim.

"That's what _I_ said to him at the time.

It was a vast more comfortable to think so.