CHAPTER XXXV
"I SHALL RETURN"
"Kathleen—Kathleen——"
"Yes, Harold, here beside you." She touched his cheek with her fingers. "You are easier now, better?"
"With you beside me, yes." He lifted his hand slowly to the bandaged throat.
"It was—Homewood—Allan Homewood who—saved—who dragged that man off me?"
"Yes, it was Allan, we heard your cry for help, he and I, we were together in the garden and——"
"You—you and he—you and he in the garden?"
"We had been talking in the yew walk, we were returning to the house and then we heard——"
He said nothing, his face twisted a little, as with pain, then it passed.