She promised to be very practical henceforth, so as to have strength to take her place by his side at once.

It was strange that she who was so good a nurse had forgotten these things, so strange that it alarmed her, as if she feared that, without being able to check herself, she was turning into some other person.
The station where she alighted was in a hubbub of life; everyone seemed to leave the train here, and to resent the presence of all the others.

They were mostly English.

The men hung back, as if, now that there was business to be done in some foolish tongue, they had better leave the ladies to do it.

Many of them seemed prepared, if there was dissension, to disown their womankind and run for it.