He elected to wait inside until she returned for him.

He little knew that he missed the downward swing of Alwa's sabre, that was waiting, poised and balanced for him, in the darkness by the door.
"Bismillah! I would have had a right to kill him had he followed her and broken faith so early in the business!" Alwa swore, excusing his impatience to Mahommed Gunga.

"Have no fear, sahib!" he counselled Cunningham a moment later, laying a heavy hand on the boy's arm.

"Let her keep her promises.

That Hindoo pig will not keep his! We will be after her, and surely--surely we will find good cause for some throat-slitting as well as the cancelling of marriage promises!" "Do you understand, Alwa-sahib, that--if Jaimihr keeps his promise to her, she must keep hers to him?
Do you realize that ?" "Allah! Listen to him! Yes, sahib.