I am here all alone.

He does not come to me, and he will not let me go to him.

But you will sit down, Capitaine Rotherby ?" she added.

"You are not in a hurry?
You are not going away again ?" "Not just yet, at any rate," I admitted.

"Do you know that after all this is a very small world! I have come to pay you a formal call on behalf of my brother who is an invalid." Her eyes grew round with surprise.
"But I do not understand!" she said.
I told her of my brother's letter from South America.