Shere Ali followed his example.

And it was of the wider plans that they at once began to talk.
"But heaven only knows when I shall get out to India," cried Linforth after a while.

"There am I at Chatham and not a chance, so far as I can see, of getting away.

You will go back first." It was significant that Linforth, who had never been in India, none the less spoke habitually of going back to it, as though that country in truth was his native soil.

Shere Ali shook his head.
"I shall wait for you," he said.