However, for a time I must be patient and wait.

I have learnt to wait, during my husband's long absences; and besides, I think that the women of India are a patient race.

I trust that John will yet come home to me, but if not, when it is time, we will try to rescue him." Ben said nothing, at the time, to damp her courage; but he shook his head, as he left the cottage.
"Poor creature," he said.

"I would not say anything to discourage her, but for a woman and boy to try to get a captive out of the claws of the Tiger of Mysore is just madness." Each time he returned from a voyage, Ben called upon Mrs.Holland.

He himself had given up every vestige of hope, when it was known that the name of her husband was not among the list of those whom Tippoo had been forced to release.