please."

"Mosr certainly I shall. At three o'clock I should have a reply
to my messages. I will go into Newton Abbot and telephone from
there."

"I thank you, Mannering. I wish it were possible to do more myself.
My mind is cruelly shaken. This awful experience has made an old
man of me."

"Don't say that. It is awful enough, I admit. But life is full
of awful things. Would that you might have escaped them!"

"Henry will help you, if it is in his power. It would be well if
we could give him something to do. He feels guilty in a way. I
have little time to observe other people; but--"

"He's all right. He can run into Newton with me now. It looks to
me as though his own life had hung on the pitch of a coin. They
tossed up! After that--so he tells me--he tried to dissuade
your son-in-law, but failed. Lennox is rather cowed and dismayed--
naturally. The young, however, survive mental and physical
disasters and recover in the most amazing manner. Their mental
recuperation is on a par with their bodily powers of recovery.
Nature is on their side. Let me urge you to go down and take food.
If you can even lunch with your party I should. It will distract
your mind."

Sir Walter declared that he had intended to do so.