He held to it, through thick and thin, for many days.
Grant wandered into the front garden.

His eyes rose involuntarily to the distant post office, and he noticed at once that the dormer window was closed.

Yet Doris shared his own love of fresh air, and that window had always been open till that very hour.

Somehow, this simple thing seemed to shut him out of her life.

He walked to the river, and gazed at the spot where the body was drawn ashore.