Even as he looked at him in scornful hate, the cart gave a lurch and Leonard fell forward.

Instinctively Harold swept an arm round him and held him up.

As he did so the unconsciousness of arrested sleep came; Leonard's chin sank on his breast and he breathed stertorously.
As he drove on, Harold's thoughts circled in a tumult.

Vague ideas of extreme measures which he ought to take flashed up and paled away.
Intention revolved upon itself till its weak side was exposed, and, it was abandoned.

He could not doubt the essential truth of Leonard's statement regarding the proposal of marriage.