But she will have found something there that will repay her for the visit in one way or another.

Luck of that kind seems to follow her always." And a long time afterward he had reason to remember what he said.

For the present, however, he had banished from his mind all things but the happiness which was his to-day; and gave himself up to that happiness with his whole heart.
Not once did he again intrude anything that had to do with himself, his exploits, or his future upon Ailsa's attention until all the voyage across the channel and all the journey from Dover up to London had come to an end; and even then, eager though he was to know how matters might shape themselves for _her_ future--he was tactful, considerate, careful not to force her into any embarrassing position or to claim from her more than the merest acquaintance might.
"You are going to your friend at Hampstead, I suppose," he said as he handed her into a taxicab at Charing Cross.

"I shall like to know if you succeed in getting the position with Lady Chepstow; and if you send no word to Mr.Narkom, I shall take silence as an assent and know that you have." And afterward, when the days grew in number and late April merged into early May and no word came, he knew that she had succeeded; and was comforted, thinking of her safely housed and perhaps in a position more congenial than the last.

At any rate, she was in England, she was again in the same land with him; and that of itself was comfort.
But other comforts were not wanting.