Then I gathered a dozen of our fellows, and rushed off, telling him to follow as soon as he could get some of his men together.
"You can imagine what agony I felt when, as I entered the open space, I saw a surging mass of Sepoys, and no sign of any of you; and how I cursed my own folly, and what delight I felt, as on cutting our way through we found that you were still on your feet." "Yes, it was a close shave, Marshall; another two or three minutes and it would have been all over.

The men fought like lions, as you can see by the piled-up dead there.

Half of them were down, and twenty men cannot hold out long against four or five hundred.
"We owe our lives to you beyond all question.

I don't see that you were in the least to blame in the matter, for naturally you would suppose that some of the Punjaubies would have joined us.

Besides, it was of course essential that you should not give the Sepoys time to rally, but should follow them up hotly.
"Where is Anstruther ?" "I don't know.