yes, a great happiness." "And Semyonov ?" I asked.
"I have nothing to say against Alexei Petrovitch," he answered stiffly.
When later I joined the others at the cottage higher up the road taken by the doctors of the Division, I discovered Trenchard in an ecstasy of happiness.

He did not speak to me but his shining eyes, the eagerness with which standing back from the group he watched us all, told me everything.

Marie Ivanovna had been kind to him, and when I found her in the centre of them, her whole body alert with excitement, I forgot my anger at her earlier unkindness or, if I remembered it, laid it to the charge of my own imagination or Trenchard's sensitiveness.
Indeed we were all excited.

How could we fail to be! There was some big business toward, and in it we were to have our share.

We were, perhaps this very day, to penetrate into the reality of the thing that for nine months now we had been watching.