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The instincts of possession and domination were strong in him , and but for the accident that wrenched his mind awry he would probably have made himself a king to Laura , for , once her master , he would have grown more gentle and more tender as the years went by , while Laura was one of those women who find happiness in love and duty : not a weak woman , not a coward , but a humble-minded woman with no great opinion of her own judgment , who would have liked to look up to father , brother , sister , husband , as better and wiser than herself . But in his present avatar he could not master her : and Clowes , feeling as she felt , seeing himself as she saw him , came sometimes as near madness as any man out of an asylum . He was not far off it now , though he lay quiet enough , with not one grain of expression in his cold black eyes . The 11:39 pulled up at Countisford station , and Lawrence Hyde got out of a first class smoking carriage and stood at ease , waiting for his servant to come and look after him . `` There 'll be a car waiting from Wanhope , Gaston -- '' `` Zere no car ` ere , M'sieu -- ze man say . '' `` What , no one to meet me ? '' Evidently no one : there were not half a dozen people on the flower-bordered platform , and those few were country folk with bundles and bags .