I don't believe there's ever been a lady in this house before, you know." He led her to the smoking-room and ensconced her in the great chair by the fire.

Smilingly she refused a series of offers which ranged from a sheepskin mantle which he had got in the Pamirs and which he thought might fit her, to hot whisky and water as a specific against a chill.
But she accepted a pair of slippers and deftly kicked off the brogues provided by Mrs.Morran.

Also, while Dickson started rapaciously on a second breakfast, she allowed him to pour her out a cup of coffee.
"You are a soldier ?" she asked.
"Two years infantry--5th Battalion Lennox Highlanders, and then Flying Corps.

Top-hole time I had too till the day before the Armistice, when my luck gave out and I took a nasty toss.

Consequently I'm not as fast on my legs now as I'd like to be." "You were a friend of Captain Kennedy ?" "His oldest.