Of course. You used to have such trouble to get even the infected clothes burnt.
Carlyon.
Exactly, in ordinary times. Well, at this time I didn't take so much trouble, I took a little trouble the other way.
Vera.
But—What do you mean? What did you want?
Carlyon.
[Harshly.] I wanted the tribes who were crowding round us to disperse. And I knew that cholera would disperse them.
Vera.
Do you mean that you deliberately——?