Here he had another vicious rub.
“Suppose in the meantime Helen Perowne and the rest of the party come back!”
Volume Two—Chapter Nineteen.
Dr Bolter Takes a Holiday.
That question of the possibility of Helen Perowne coming back interfered a good deal with Doctor Bolter’s project—one which he had been longing to put in force for months and months—a project which his journey to England and his marriage had set aside, though it was never forgotten.
“Suppose Helen comes back?” he asked himself often.
“Well, I ought to be here,” he said; “but if she were to return in my absence she couldn’t help being pleased, for I might have discovered the gold mines. But ought I to tell Mary where I am going?”
“No,” he said, decidedly; “she would object. She might agree to my going upon a collecting expedition; but she would say as she said before, that the Ophir question was a myth.”