“Why, Ted, I didn’t know you’d arrived.”
“Just come. Affectionate brother intimated that, as he had no room for thinking of anyone but you, I disturbed him.”
“So you were coming to see me? You are looking well, Ted. I half expected to see a decrepit invalid with crutches and bandages.”
“I’m all right now. Should have come though to see you married if I’d had to be brought on a doolie.”
He assisted the girl to dismount, and, giving the horse in charge of the sais, they entered the house.
“I am glad you look so well,” repeated Miss Woodburn. “Paterson kept us posted up as to your state so long as he remained at Lucknow. We had an anxious time for a week or two.”
“You heard about Tynan, I suppose? He proved a brick in the end, did he not?”
“Yes, I was glad when I read Alec’s account of how he died. That is—you know what I mean?”
Ted nodded.
“Had you not seen him since that night at Lahore?” Ethel continued.