When the cold daylight fell upon John's face, as he dressed himself next
morning, the incipient yesterday's wrinkle in his forehead had become
permanently graven there. He had resolved, for the sake of that only
brother whom he had nursed as a baby, instructed as a child, and
protected and loved always, to pause in his procedure for the present,
and at least do nothing to hinder Bob's restoration to favour, if a
genuine, even though temporarily smothered, love for Anne should still
hold possession of him. But having arranged to take her to see the
excavated figure of the king, he started for Overcombe during the day, as
if nothing had occurred to check the smooth course of his love.