"Done what, Kitty, what?"
Kitty again looked wildly round her.
"I have come," she said. "I told a lie to come. I said I was a Red Cross sister. I was not."
"In one sense you were. You have been plucky of the plucky last night. But why have you come, Kitty? and where is Katherine?"
"I know nothing about her. I had to come to—save you. Is Major Strause here?"
"Major Strause!" said Molly. A faint colour came into her tired face. "No," she said; "he would not be here unless he were wounded."
"Thank God! thank God! Then you are not engaged to him."
Kitty burst into tears. Mollie knelt by her.
"What do you mean, child?" she said. "Not engaged to him! But I thought you wished it."
"Not now. I have repented. I have heard something. Mollie, you must never, under any circumstances, marry him—never, never!"