"No," he said, "even you cannot guess that. Now go back to his wife. If I can be of any use at all send for me. I shall not come round otherwise till I bring him here to-morrow evening. I mean to ride out with a small escort and meet them on the way." Honor found Evelyn rigid and tearless among her cushions. The strange mingling of coldness and terror in her eyes startled the girl. She hurried to the sofa and knelt down at her side. "Don't look like that, Evelyn," she said. "It's horrible! Only think, Theo will be here to-morrow evening. Paul told me so just now." "To-morrow--to-morrow? He will be here, in this house--to-morrow?" She repeated the word with stunned iteration, and there was no feeling in her tone, only an uncanny fear, that chilled the blood in Honor's veins. "I never thought--it would be so soon. How can we manage about getting away?" "Getting away--where--in Heaven's name?" Honor rose abruptly. She began to feel as though she were moving in a nightmare. "Oh, anywhere, away from here. I can't--I won't see him, when he is 'badly cut about' and--half blind. I thought--if you would take me to Murree--Mrs Olliver would be quite glad to look after him. And when he is better, he could come up too. But if--if he is really going to be--blind----" She closed her eyes and shuddered. No flicker of pity stirred in Honor's heart. It needed all her force of will to control her temper, even for a few minutes longer. But a grim curiosity urged her to discover how far it was possible to travel along such incredible lines of thought and feeling. "Well, what then?" she demanded coldly. "Then--I know I could--never come back to him--never!" Theo's wife answered slowly, without raising her eyes, or the look in Honor's face would surely have frozen the words on her lips. "To feel that he was always in the dark would frighten me out of my life. And he would never be left alone, I know. There are so many--others." But Honor could bear no more. Bending down, she caught hold of Evelyn's shoulders and fairly shook her, as though she would shake her back to life and human feeling. Her blue eyes blazed with indignation.