"We must see how things are going on.

I certainly should not think of going outside the station now, nor could I give leave to any officer to do so; but if things settle down, and we hear no more of this cartridge business for the next ten days or a fortnight, we will see about it." But although no news of any outbreak similar to that at Barrackpore was received for some days, the report that came showed a widespread restlessness.

At various stations, all over India, fires, believed to be the work of incendiaries, took place, and there was little abatement of the uneasiness.

It become known, too, that a native officer had before the rising of Berhampore given warning of the mutiny, and had stated that there was a widespread plot throughout the native regiments to rise, kill their officers, and then march to Delhi, where they were all to gather.
The story was generally disbelieved, although the actual rising had shown that, to some extent, the report was well founded; still men could not bring themselves to believe that the troops among whom they had lived so long, and who had fought so well for us, could meditate such gross treachery, without having, as far as could be seen, any real cause for complaint.
The conduct of the troops at Deennugghur was excellent, and the Colonel wrote that at Cawnpore there were no signs whatever of disaffection, and that the Rajah of Bithoor had offered to come down at the head of his own troops should there be any symptoms of mutiny among the Sepoys.
Altogether things looked better, and a feeling of confidence that there would be no serious trouble spread through the station.
The weather had set in very hot, and there was no stirring out now for the ladies between eleven o'clock and five or six in the afternoon.
Isobel, however, generally went in for a chat, the first thing after early breakfast, with Mrs.Doolan, whose children were fractious with prickly heat.
"I only wish we had some big, high mountain, my dear, somewhere within reach, where we could establish the children through the summer and run away ourselves occasionally to look after them.

We are very badly off here in Oude for that.