At first it seemed only a fraternal _au revoir_, then it became a rather serious promise, and finally sounded in his ears rather like a menace.
Here was he, going down like a prince to his coronation, and his subjects would "see him to-morrow." It had never occurred to him before that these subjects might have something to say to the ordering of the new kingdom, and that he should have to reckon with them, as well as they with him.

The idea was not altogether comfortable, and he tried to shelve it.

Of course he would get on with them.

They would look up to him, and they would discover that his interests and theirs were the same.

He was prepared to go some way to meet them.