CHAPTER IX.
REVELATION OF BUNNING (II) 1 The next day the frost broke, and after a practice game on the Saul's ground, in preparation for a rugby match at the end of the week, Olva, bathed and feeling physically a fine, overwhelming fitness, went to see Margaret Craven.
This sense of his physical well-being was extraordinary.

Mentally he was nearly beaten, almost at the limit of his endurance.

Spiritually the catastrophe hovered more closely above him at every advancing moment, but, physically, he had never, in all his life before, felt such magnificent health.

He had been sleeping badly now for weeks.

He had been eating very little, but he felt no weariness, no faintness.