You look absolutely done up!' Nelly rose slowly, but her face had flushed.
'I can't stay here, Bridget!' she said with energy--'I can't! I don't know why we came.' 'Because we were asked,' said Bridget calmly.

'We can stay, I think, for a couple of days, can't we, till we find something else?
Where are your brushes ?' And she began vigorously unpacking for her sister, helplessly watched by Nelly.

They had just come from D---- Street, where Nelly had been shewn various letters and telegrams; but nothing which promised any real further clue to George Sarratt's fate.

He had been seen advancing--seen wounded--by at least a dozen men of the regiment, and a couple of officers, all of whom had now been communicated with.

But the wave of the counter-attack--temporarily successful--had rushed over the same ground before the British gains had been finally consolidated, and from that fierce and confused fighting there came no further word of George Sarratt.