II shall leave you in charge of Mrs.Hunter.There is nothing for you to do on the roof at present.

This attack is a mere outbreak of rage on the part of the Sepoys that we have all escaped them.

They know well enough they can't take this house by merely firing away at the roof.

When they attack in earnest it will be quite time for you to take part in the affair again.
Now, Mrs.Hunter, my orders are absolute that he is not to be allowed to get up." On the Doctor leaving the room he found several of the ladies outside; the news that Mr.Bathurst had been carried down had spread among them.
"Is he badly hurt, Doctor ?" "No, ladies.

Mr.Bathurst is, unfortunately for himself, an extremely nervous man, and the noise of firearms has an effect upon him that he cannot by any effort of his own overcome.