"Then I can't catch my train at Victoria." He spoke in a changed voice, lifeless, and sank back on the bed.
"Train? What train?"
"Nothing. Only the leave train. My leave is up to-night. To-morrow I ought to have been back in the trenches."
"But you have told me nothing of it! If you had told me—But not one word, my dear."
"When one is with a woman—!"
He seemed gloomily and hopelessly to reproach her.