I won't hear even you speak against yourself." "Then I will not do so, Mrs.Doolan," he said, with a grave smile.

"And now I will go and sit with the Major for a time.

Things are quieter tonight than they have been for some time past, and I trust he will get some sleep." So saying, he quietly left the room.
"I don't believe he has slept two hours at a time since the siege began," Mrs.Doolan said, with tears in her eyes.

"We have all suffered--God only knows what we have suffered!--but I am sure that he has suffered more than any of us.

As for you men, you may well say you are sorry and ashamed of your treatment of him.