I must see our Brothers.

I must tell them all that has happened between us, and all that threatens now." V.
He did not come to their next meeting until she had waited some time.
They were to meet that day about midday in a great space of park that fitted into a bend of the river, and as she waited, looking ever southward under her hand, it came to her that the world was very still, that indeed it was broodingly still.

And then she perceived that, spite of the lateness of the hour, her customary retinue of voluntary spies had failed her.

Left and right, when she came to look, there was no one in sight, and there was never a boat upon the silver curve of the Thames.

She tried to find a reason for this strange stillness in the world....
Then, a grateful sight for her, she saw young Redwood far away over a gap in the tree masses that bounded her view.
Immediately the trees hid him, and presently he was thrusting through them and in sight again.