A thought had been gaining strength in his mind all that afternoon, and since Durrance would not lead up to its utterance, he spoke it out himself.
"Harry Feversham must come back to England.

He has done enough to redeem his honour." Harry Feversham's return might be a little awkward for Durrance, and Lieutenant Sutch with that notion in his mind blurted out his sentences awkwardly, but to his surprise Durrance answered him at once.
"I was waiting for you to say that.

I wanted you to realise without any suggestion of mine that Harry must return.

It was with that object that I came." Lieutenant Sutch's relief was great.

He had been prepared for an objection, at the best he only expected a reluctant acquiescence, and in the greatness of his relief he spoke again:-- "His return will not really trouble you or your wife, since Miss Eustace has forgotten him." Durrance shook his head.
"She has not forgotten him." "But she kept silence, even after Willoughby had brought the feather back.