I don't say it was that; I did not notice it much.

There was a breach in the outside wall, and round it there was a fierce fight going on.

A party of officers and civilians were repelling the assault of a body of Sepoys.

On the terraced roof of the house others were standing firing and looking on, and I think engaged in loading rifles were two or three women.

One of them I particularly noticed; and, now I recall it, her face was that of Miss Hannay; of that I am absolutely certain." "It is curious, lad," the Doctor said, after a pause; "and the picture, you see, has so far come true that you have made the acquaintance with one of the actors whom you did not previously know." "I did not believe in the truth of it, Doctor, and I do not believe in it now.