She rose.
“I’ll get Mrs. Royce to stay with you, Caroline,” she said.
“But where are you going, Lexy?”
“I’m going to find Charles.”
In the doorway she encountered Captain Grey.
“Do you think she could stand seeing me?” he asked anxiously. “I mean do you—”
But Lexy didn’t even answer.
XXV
After all, Lexy’s search for Charles Houseman was neither difficult nor heroic, except in intention. She found him in the Lymewell Hospital. Joe told her where he was, and Joe took her there.
Houseman himself was rigidly determined not to be heroic. He had refused to go to bed, and Lexy found him in a bare, whitewashed waiting room, where he sat on a bench.