You've been informed, haven't you?
Well, it will be gazetted to-morrow or in a day or two, and letters will be sent to you with the other papers." "What promotion ?" asked Godfrey.
"Oh! to be a colonel, of course.

You did very well out there in France, you know, and it is thought advisable that the officer undertaking this special work should have a colonel's rank, just to begin with.
Good-bye." So Godfrey went, and said vaguely to the waiting Isobel: "I'm afraid, dear, that I shall have to ask you to help me to do some shopping.

I think there are some stores near here.

We had better drive to them." "Tell me everything," said Isobel.
So he told her, and when he had finished she said slowly: "It is bad enough, but I suppose it might be worse.

Will they let me go with you to Southampton ?" "I expect so," he answered.