He felt a fierce confidence that could still make the world respect him.
An hour passed away.

An answer came from Field to the effect that a doctor would be sent up on a freight train just starting, and might be expected shortly.
While Mrs.Ginnell was still attending on her lodger, Anderson went out into the starlight to try and think out the situation.

The night was clear and balmy.

The high snows glimmered through the lingering twilight, and in the air there was at last a promise of "midsummer pomps." Pine woods and streams breathed freshness, and when in his walk along the railway line--since there is no other road through the Kicking Horse Pass--he reached a point whence the great Yoho valley became visible to the right, he checked the rapid movement which had brought him a kind of physical comfort, and set himself--in face of that far-stretching and splendid solitude--to wrestle with calamity.
First of all there was the Englishman--Delaine--and the letter that must be written him.

But there, also, no evasions, no suppliancy.