"I mean that you must come away with me to begin a new life—a happier one—together. I cannot leave you here with a man who neglects you, who does not appreciate you, who cannot understand you."
"Do you mean—run away with you?" she asked.
"Yes; it is the only thing to do."
She slowly loosed her clasp of him and released herself from his arms.
"But I don't understand at all. Why are you going? And where?"
He briefly told her what had happened. His face flushed darkly as he repeated the Colonel's words.
"'He wouldn't have an officer like me under his command,' he said. He treated me like a criminal. I don't value his opinion much. But Major Hepburn agrees with him. That hurts. I respect him."
"But where is this place they're sending you to?" she asked.
"Ranga Duar? I don't know. Eastern Bengal, I believe."
"Bengal. What? Anywhere near Calcutta?"