"You need a complete change of people as well as of place. Is there anyone left in Algiers?"
"If you don't come," he interrupted her quickly, "I'd much rather go quite alone. It will rest me much more."
She saw by the look in his eyes that this sudden prospect of loneliness appealed to him strongly. He moved his shoulders, stretched out his arms.
"Yes, it will do me good. You are right, Charmian. It is sweet of you to think for me as you do."
And he bent down and kissed her.
Then he hurried to his room, packed a very small trunk, and took the first train, as she had suggested, to Hammam R'rirha.
"If you move from there mind you let me know your address," she said, as he was starting.
"Of course."
"I want always to know just where you are."
"Of course I shall let you know. But I think I shall stay quietly at Hammam R'rirha."