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Sutch was quite wrong.... Of course there was always the chance that one might come to grief oneself get killed, you know, or fall ill and die before one asked you to take your feather back; and then there wouldn't even have been a chance of the afterwards. But that is the risk one had to take." The allusion was not direct enough for Colonel Trench's comprehension.
"I have been thinking," he said. "Have you noticed the date of the month, Sutch?" and Sutch looked up quickly. "Yes," said he, "this day next week will be the anniversary of our attack upon the Redan, and Harry's birthday." "Exactly," replied Feversham. "Why shouldn't we start the Crimean nights again?" Sutch jumped up from his chair. "Splendid!" he cried. "Can we muster a tableful, do you think?"
"Sutch!" exclaimed Feversham. "So he comes to our help! How did he know that I was here?" Trench fairly shook with excitement as he walked. He did not speak of the great new hope which so suddenly came to them, for he dared not. He tried even to pretend to himself that no message at all had come. He was afraid to let his mind dwell upon the subject.
Like many a man who lives much alone, Lieutenant Sutch had fallen into the habit of speaking his thoughts aloud. And as he drove slowly and reluctantly forward, more than once he said to himself: "I foresaw there would be trouble. From the beginning I foresaw there would be trouble." The ridge of hill along which he drove dipped suddenly to a hollow.
Sutch endowed her on the instant with all the good qualities possible to a human being. The nobler she was, the greater was his pride that Harry Feversham still retained her heart. Lieutenant Sutch fairly revelled in this new knowledge.
No doubt he has done that through Lieutenant Sutch. He has been at Wiesbaden with an oculist; he only returned a week ago. Otherwise he would have told me about it. Very likely he was the reason why Lieutenant Sutch was at Suakin, but he knows nothing of the four feathers. He only knows that our engagement was abruptly broken off; he believes that I have no longer any thought of you at all.
Again remorse for that occasion, recognised and not used, seized upon Lieutenant Sutch. "Why didn't I speak that night?" he said impotently. "A coward, and you go quietly down to Surrey and confront your father with that story to tell to him! You do not even write! You stand up and tell it to him face to face!
Marriage between a man blind like myself and any woman, let alone Ethne, could not be fair or right unless upon both sides there was more than friendship. Harry must return to England. He must return to Ethne, too. You must go to Egypt and do what you can to bring him back." Sutch was relieved of his suspense. He had obeyed his conscience and yet done Harry Feversham no disservice.
He stared at Durrance and saw the hope stricken. Durrance looked the man of courage which his record proved him to be, and Lieutenant Sutch had his theory of women. "Brute courage they make a god of it." "Well?" asked Durrance. Lieutenant Sutch was aware that he must answer. He was sorely tempted to lie.
Willoughby replies, ‘There is sutch a laird of Lesterigge as you write of, a vain lose man, a greate favourer of thefes reputed, yet a man of a good clan, as they here tearme it, and a gud felow.’
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