Do you see ?" Dewes nodded his head.
"Yes, I see," he answered, and he answered so because he saw that Luffe had come to the end of his strength.

His voice had weakened, he lay with his eyes sunk deep in his head and a leaden pallor upon his face, and his breath laboured as he spoke.
"I am glad," replied Luffe, "that you understand." But it was not until many years had passed that Dewes saw and understood the trouble which was then stirring in Luffe's mind.

And even then, when he did see and understand, he wondered how much Luffe really had foreseen.

Enough, at all events, to justify his reputation for sagacity.
Dewes went out from the bedroom and climbed up on to the roof of the Fort.

The sun was up, the day already hot, and would have been hotter, but that a light wind stirred among the almond trees in the garden.