Ever since the two men had graduated from Oxford it had been their custom to meet at this spot and hour, when both chanced to be in town, and Durrance was puzzled.

It seemed to him that he had lost his friend as well.
Meanwhile, however, the rumours of war grew to a certainty; and when at last Feversham kept the tryst, Durrance had news.
"I told you luck might look my way.

Well, she has.

I go out to Egypt on General Graham's staff.

There's talk we may run down the Red Sea to Suakin afterward." The exhilaration of his voice brought an unmistakable envy into Feversham's eyes.