I _left_ her there.' Remorse stirred his boots more ungently than before.
'But it was only a dream,' he said.

And then remorse said, as he had felt all along that it would if he only gave it a chance: 'But suppose it wasn't a dream--suppose it was real.

Suppose you _did_ leave her there, my noble friend, and that's why she's lost.' Suddenly Philip felt very small, very forlorn, very much alone in the world.

But Helen would come back.

That telegram would bring her.
Yes.