This sort of thing is contagious.

It becomes a sort of epidemic, and in spite of the assurances of the men I felt sure they would go.

But this scoundrel of Bithoor turning against us is more than I bargained for.

There is no disguising the fact that it means a general rising through Oude, and in that case God help the women and children.
As for us, it all comes in the line of business.

What does the Major say ?" "The only question that seemed to him to be open was whether the women and children could be got away." "But there does not seem any possible place for them to go to.