The news was not altogether unexpected, but the lightness of spirit which he felt showed him how much he had counted upon its coming.
"I knew," he exclaimed, "I knew he wouldn't fail.

Oh, I am glad you came to-day, Colonel Durrance.

It was partly my fault, you see, that Harry Feversham ever incurred that charge of cowardice.

I could have spoken--there was an opportunity on one of the Crimean nights at Broad Place, and a word might have been of value--and I held my tongue.

I have never ceased to blame myself.