The latter expressed himself as being very glad to meet Mrs.Armstrong.

He looked as if he meant it.
"And no apologies are due, not from your side at least," he declared.

"If it had not been for your little girl our missing plan might have been missing yet." Fifteen minutes elapsed before the owner of the windmill shop returned.

When he did come hurrying up the bluff and in at the back door, heated and out of breath, no one seemed to have missed him greatly.

Major Grover, who might reasonably have been expected to show some irritation at his long wait, appeared quite oblivious of the fact that he had waited at all.