Miss Bellingham is the cleverest and most accomplished woman I have ever spoken to." This was a poser for Miss Oman, whose admiration and loyalty, I knew, were only equalled by my own.

She would have liked to contradict me, but the thing was impossible.

To cover her defeat she snatched up the bundle of newspapers and began to open them out.
"What sort of stuff is 'hibernation' ?" she demanded suddenly.
"Hibernation!" I exclaimed.
"Yes.

They found a patch of it on a bone that was discovered in a pond at St.Mary Cray, and a similar patch on one that was found at some place in Essex.

Now, I want to know what 'hibernation' is." "You must mean 'eburnation,'" I said, after a moment's reflection.
"The newspapers say 'hibernation,' and I suppose they know what they are talking about.