He was very devoted to her--very.

He is miserable without her, they say.

Perhaps he has come to the war to forget her." I was surprised at Trenchard's interest; I had thought him so wrapt in his own especial affair that nothing outside it could occupy him.

But he continued: "He knew the tall doctor--Nikitin--before, didn't he ?" "Yes....

Nikitin knew his wife." "Oh, I see....