In about another week he was well enough to move.

We carried him down to Mozufferpoor, the first large town in the plains thereabouts, and handed him over for the stage of convalescence to the care of the able and efficient station doctor, to whom my thanks are due for much courteous assistance.
"And now, what do you mean to do ?" I asked Hilda, when our patient was placed in other hands, and all was over.
She answered me without one second's hesitation: "Go straight to Bombay, and wait there till Sebastian takes passage for England." "He will go home, you think, as soon as he is well enough ?" "Undoubtedly.

He has now nothing more to stop in India for." "Why not as much as ever ?" She looked at me curiously.

"It is so hard to explain," she replied, after a moment's pause, during which she had been drumming her little forefinger on the table.

"I feel it rather than reason it.