I suspected then.
When you came down the steps into the verandah I became almost certain.
When you would not help yourself to food, when you reached out your arm over your shoulder so that Moussa had to put the brandy-and-soda safely into your palm, I was sure." "I was a fool to try and hide it," said Durrance.

"Of course I knew all the time that I couldn't for more than a few hours.

But even those few hours somehow seemed a gain." "How did it happen ?" "There was a high wind," Durrance explained.

"It took my helmet off.

It was eight o'clock in the morning.