There is but one way that I know of.

I must ask him point blank." "Yes.

Ask him," said Herbert, "when we sit at breakfast in the morning." For he had said, on taking leave of Herbert, that he would come to breakfast with us.
With this project formed, we went to bed.

I had the wildest dreams concerning him, and woke unrefreshed; I woke, too, to recover the fear which I had lost in the night, of his being found out as a returned transport.

Waking, I never lost that fear.
He came round at the appointed time, took out his jackknife, and sat down to his meal.