After that I did not so much mind, though it seemed more like a week than a night while the things were being brought in here." "I think the worse time was while we were waiting watching from the roof to see whether the troops would come out on parade as usual," Isobel said.

"When my uncle and the others were all in, and Captain Forster, and the gates were shut, it seemed that our anxieties were over." "That was a mad charge of yours, Forster," the Major said.

"It was like the Balaclava business--magnificent; but it wasn't war." "I did not think of it one way or the other," Captain Forster laughed.
"I was so furious at the insolence off those dogs attacking me, that I thought of nothing else, and just went at them; but of course it was foolish." "It did good," the Doctor said.

"It showed the Sepoys how little we thought of them, and how a single white officer was ready to match himself against a squadron.

It will render them a good deal more careful in their attack than they otherwise would have been.