We are only waiting for Durnovo to join, and then we shall make a start.

Of course, somebody else could have come down for the quinine." "Yes." He glanced at her beneath his lashes before going on, "But, as Durnovo's nerves were a little shaken, it--was just as well, don't you know, to get him out of it all." "I suppose he got himself out of it all ?" she said quietly.
"Well--to a certain extent.

With our approval, you understand." Men have an esprit de sexe as well as women.

They like to hustle the cowards through with the crowd, unobserved.
"It is a strange thing," said Jocelyn, with a woman's scorn of the man who fears those things of which she herself has no sort of dread, "a very strange thing, that Mr.Durnovo said nothing about it down here.

It is not known in Loango that you had small-pox in the camp." "Well, you see, when he left we were not quite sure about it." "I imagine Mr.Durnovo knows all about small-pox.