I shall, however, never forget how kindly he spoke nor the inexpressible sadness of his face.

I told him how quiet everything appeared to be along the road we had taken, and how civil were all the Boers we had met.

At this he turned to the guest whose departure he was speeding, and said, with a grave smile, "That is thanks to you, General." And then the cortege rode on.

On reflection, I decided, rather from what Lord Roberts had left unsaid than from his actual words, that if we had asked leave to travel home via Pretoria, it would have been refused.
The rest of that day and the next we spent in seeing the town under its new auspices, and it certainly presented far more to interest a visitor than on the occasion of my last visit in 1896.

In a suburb known as Sunny Side was situated Lord Roberts's headquarters, at a house known as the Residency.