What on earth are you doing here?
Of course, I heard of your poor father's death, and was grieved, indeed, at his loss.

Where is your mother?
She is well, I hope." "She went back to England with my sisters, two months after my father's death.

I joined my uncle, her brother.

He is a trader, and carries on business in the district between here and Sylhet, trading principally on the rivers; but of course the war has put a stop to that, for the present.

We saw the fighting up in the north, and then came down to this district.