He sat very thoughtful, but with no emotion showing in his face.

British stolidity was in the ascendant with him then.

He felt that he had the need of it.
"It is...

ugly," he said at last slowly.
"It is God's own will," was the hot answer, and Sir Richard smote the table.
"Has God taken you into His confidence ?" wondered Mr.Caryll.
"I know that God is justice." "Yet is it not written that 'vengeance is His own' ?" "Aye, but He needs human instruments to execute it.

Such instruments are we.