SMITH. Not just yet, of course not just yet. But possibly when time has reconciled you to your loss. She expressed the hope that some day--but not just yet, of course, you and she might journey together to Somaliland with a wreath. CELIA. Yes. (_Choking and turning away her head_.) That's a very sweet idea. We might go out for the Xmas holidays. SMITH. Oh, I know. I can gauge, Miss Faraday, the measure of your grief by my own. But there is just one alleviation which I am very glad to bring to you. CELIA. What is that, please? SMITH. When Colonel Smith died--of wounds--at Berbera, he died without any pain. CELIA. (_Rising, alarmed_) It is very good of you, Colonel Vavasour, to have come all the way from London to tell me this. (_Starts as if to exit, holding out her hand to_ SMITH.) (SMITH _also rises, takes her hand and detains her_ C.) SMITH. This--and more. I was with him at the last. How well I remember the scene. He used to lie on his sick bed-gazing across the thatched roofs of Berbera to the Arab dhows riding at their anchors in the sea. (_She turns away_ R.) And he gave into my hands a few small things to bring you. (CELIA _turns away, horrified_.) Trifles which he habitually wore. Here are a few of them. (_Brings out packages containing watch and pin from pockets_.) CELIA. Heavens!! No!--I couldn't think of taking them. SMITH. (_In surprise, holding them towards_ CELIA) They were Smith's, and you couldn't _take_ them! Ah, I understand. You had quarreled. (_Puts things into pockets_.) CELIA. No, we _never_ quarreled. There was never one harsh word spoken by me to him or by him to me. SMITH. (L.C. _Standing_) Then why refuse his gifts? CELIA. (_Goes to table_ R. _At a loss_) Well--you see--he had never given me anything. SMITH. (_Suddenly smiles and brings out parcels again_) How like Smith! How very like him! Even he had his failings. But we, who knew him so well, can afford to speak of them frankly. CELIA. I don't think you understand, Colonel Vavasour. Gifts would have been impossible in such an engagement as that which existed between him and me.