"You're not dreaming. You are in great pain, owing to an accident which could hardly have been avoided by a man, and can't sleep."
"I am in no pain now."
"Colonel Meredith has gone to Carrytown for something to make you sleep, so you aren't to fret and feel neglected if he doesn't come back to you at once."
"Just the same it's a horrible feeling—to be all alone."
"But if some one—any one were to stay within call——?"
"If you were to stay within call it would make all the difference in the world."
"You don't know who I am, do you?"
"I don't know what you look like, and I don't know your name. But I know who you are. And once upon a time—long years ago—you promised, you half promised, to tell me the other things."
"My name is a very, very old name, and I look like a lot of other people. But you say you know who I am. Who am I?"
Mr. Bob Jonstone laughed softly.