These, with bedding and camp furniture, cooking utensils and provisions, were to be sent off at daybreak, while the party were to start as soon as the heat of the day was over.
"I wish Bathurst had been coming," Major Hannay said, as, with Isobel by his side, he drove out of the cantonment.

"He seems to have slipped away from us altogether; he has only been in once for the last three or four weeks.

You haven't had a tiff with him about anything, have you, Isobel?
It seems strange his ceasing so suddenly to come after our seeing so much of him." "No, uncle, I have not seen him except when you have.

What put such an idea into your mind ?" "I don't know, my dear; young people do have tiffs sometimes about all sorts of trifles, though I should not have thought that Bathurst was the sort of man to do anything of that sort.

I don't think that he likes Forster, and does not care to meet him.