He felt frightened at the prospect, and his alarm dismayed him.

Frightened to face her! Nothing could give him a better measure of the greatness of the change around him, and in him.

Another man--and another life with the faith in himself gone.

He could not be worth much if he was afraid to face that woman.
He dared not enter the house through the open door of the dining-room, but stood irresolute by the little work-table where trailed a white piece of calico, with a needle stuck in it, as if the work had been left hurriedly.

The pink-crested cockatoo started, on his appearance, into clumsy activity and began to climb laboriously up and down his perch, calling "Joanna" with indistinct loudness and a persistent screech that prolonged the last syllable of the name as if in a peal of insane laughter.