That couldn’t be right. He gave a dissenting grunt then walked her up and down the path again in silence.
‘Why South Africa, though? The South of France’d be more convenient, surely.’
‘You can’t have missed the way Rud roused up, came to life, as the situation with the Boers worsened?’
He hadn’t put two and two together. The whole business of fighting the Boers bothered him. England laying down the law to two independent republics on the other side of the world.
‘When war was declared, just now, he was positively elated,’ she went on, growing pink.
In his concern Lockwood stood stock still.
‘Carrie, that sounds quite morbid. Are you sure?’
‘Perfectly sure. I wish I wasn’t. He’s fretful now that things aren’t going better for our side. “I’ve got to go down there to see for myself wha
