He did not go on analysing further; for as he walked the room with a portion of the weight taken from his heart he noticed that the sky was beginning to quicken.

The day would soon be upon him, and there was work to be done.

Instinctively he knew that there was trouble in store for Stephen, and he felt that in such an hour he should be near her.

All her life she had been accustomed to him.

In her sorrows to confide in him, to tell him her troubles so that they might dwindle and pass away; to enhance her pleasures by making him a sharer in them.
Harold was inspirited by the coming of the new day.