Now and again, at a corner, he would glance back, his mind on Julie in the following car, while every church tower gave him pause for thought.

He tried to draw the man beside him on religion, but without any success, though he talked freely enough of other things.

He was for the Colonies after the war, he said.

He'd knocked about a good deal in France, and the taste for travel had come to him.

Canada appeared a land of promise; one could get a farm easily, and his motor knowledge would be useful on a farm these days.