'Yes—too well.'
'And yet made no effort to see—to write to me!'
'I knew not where to find you.'
'You might have inquired—that is, if you cared to know.'
'Cared—oh, Finella!'
'And your wound—your cruel wound! Have you recovered from it?'
'Nearly so—thus I have just been at the Horse Guards about going on foreign service again.
'Foreign service—again?'
'Yes; there are wounds deeper and more lasting than any an enemy can inflict.'
She evidently did not understand his mood.