For a moment Lucy looked at the speaker, but still he refused to meet her eye.
"I ... understand, Captain Carson," she said at last, and then shivered slightly and turned away.
"Who's light-headed? What the devil do you mean, Peter, and where's Cyclops? Hullo, Lucy, what are you doing here?"
"You've had a fall, dear. The race is over."
"Over, where's O'Hagan?"
"And I want you to take me back. I—I'm cold," and again Lucy shivered.
"Matador, O'Hagan, what of them?"
"Never mind about that now, Hector."
"I will know, I must know, where are they?"
Lucy looked questioningly at Peter; the latter nodded in answer.