He did not doubt the Maharajah.

If he wrote to Calcutta that a Rajput prince still held a hostage from the Mutiny, and made a disturbance, there would be an end to the work he had begun under the shadow of the palace wall.

And the work was prospering so well! The people were listening now, Dr.Roberts thought, and certainly he had been able to relieve a great deal of their physical misery.

Would he be justified in writing to Calcutta?
Dr.Roberts thought about it very long and very seriously.

In the end he believed that he would not be justified, at least until the year was over of which the Maharajah spoke.