"You need not stay." He did not move.

It was as if he had not heard.

Her wonder grew into a sort of detached curiosity.

What did the man want?
She remembered that the colonel had told her that he understood English.
"Is there--something--you wish to say to me ?" she asked, and the bare utterance of the words kindled a feeble spark of hope within her, almost in spite of herself.
He turned very slowly.
"Yes, one thing," he said, paused an instant as she sprang to her feet with a great cry, then straightened himself, pushed the _chuddah_ back from his face, and flung out his arms to her passionately.
"Audrey!" he said--"Audrey!".