I don't know about that. [Grimly.] I think Selim understood his business.
Vera.
[Shuddering again.] How horrible! But of course you were right. All the women and children, too?
Carlyon.
Naturally; I couldn't isolate the non-combatants. There weren't very many. I saved my own men. [He pauses, takes a step or two l. and breaks out.] I deceived the Government, disobeyed the Government, and saved the whole of Rajpoor! I shut the war up in the Bhojâli country, conquered Bhojâl, annexed half of it, and drove the rebellious element beyond the frontier.
Vera.
[Shuddering and cowed.] It was very horrible!
Carlyon.
Horrible! And what if Koreb had been let loose upon Rajpoor? If you had ever seen the sacked villages and the torture stakes——