Spurred on by the sustaining Constance, he stood by his guns and at last was gratified to see faint signs of surrender.

By midday he had conquered.

Tootles permitted him to carry her up and down the station platform (she was too young to realise the risk she ran).

Edith and Constance, with the beaming nurse and O'Brien, applauded warmly when he returned from his first promenade, bearing Tootles and proudly heeled by Raggles.

Fond mothers in the crowd of hurrying travellers found time to look upon him and smile as if to say, "What a nice man!" He could almost hear them saying it.