Durrance himself, however, was not less preoccupied, and so the statement passed for the moment unobserved by either.
"So you never knew what brought Mr.Feversham to Halfa ?" she asked.

"Did you not ask him?
Why didn't you?
Why ?" She was disappointed, and the bitterness of her disappointment gave passion to her cry.

Here was the last news of Harry Feversham, and it was brought to her incomplete, like the half sheet of a letter.

The omission might never be repaired.
"I was a fool," said Durrance.

There was almost as much regret in his voice now as there had been in hers; and because of that regret he did not remark the passion with which she had spoken.