You see, Feversham's disgrace was, on the face of it, impossible to retrieve.

The opportunity might never have occurred--it was not likely to occur.

As things happened, Feversham still waited for three years in the bazaar at Suakin before it did.

No, Miss Eustace, it needed a woman's faith to conceive that plan--a woman's encouragement to keep the man who undertook it to his work." Ethne laughed and turned back to him.

Her face was tender with pride, and more than tender.