“Where is he?” she asked.
“At Kraaifontein.”
She thought for a moment.
“And Karl Van Bleit was at Kraaifontein too?”
“Yes... He’s back now.”
Mrs Lawless looked straight into the Colonel’s eyes.
“He got the letters for you,” she said, and he knew that she referred to Lawless though she did not utter his name.
“Yes.”
For the life of him the Colonel could think of nothing further to say. He was aware that the same suspicion that was in his own mind was in hers; and he had no reassurance to offer. He could find no word to supplement his bald affirmative. The pause lengthened.
“Another life!” she whispered... “I always felt—”