But I'll be waiting to be summoned, and I'll come like a shot as soon as you hoick me out.

I've got a presentiment about this thing.

I know there'll be a finish and that I'll be in at it, and I think it will be a desperate, bloody business too.' I found Mary's eyes fixed upon me, and in them I read the same thought.
She had not spoken a word, but had sat on the edge of a chair, swinging a foot idly, one hand playing with an ivory fan.

She had given me my old orders and I looked to her for confirmation of the new.
'Miss Lamington, you are the wisest of the lot of us.

What do you say ?' She smiled--that shy, companionable smile which I had been picturing to myself through all the wanderings of the past month.
'I think you are right.