Not _as_ I did, of course, for she is everything to me, and I am only an old friend to her; but yet I think she would have been sorry to miss me by so little.
"What an idiot I am! when I have not even the smallest notion whether she could be on board or not.

Very likely I shall find them still at the dear old Cottage." But after his soliloquy he shook his head in a disconsolate manner, and betook himself to a novel by way of distraction.
Two more days and they reached New York.

They got in early in the morning, and Maurice, the moment he found himself on shore, hurried to the railway station.

On inquiry there, however, he found that to start immediately would be, in fact, rather to lose, than to gain time.

A train starting that evening would be his speediest conveyance; and for that he resolved to wait.