I'm better, and though I've cut the affair at barracks to-night, I fully expect to be up and about this afternoon.
"Ever yours, "GEO.

MCGREGOR." "Oh! so Carr is on his back and likely to remain there, is he?
Very likely, I expect; but I wonder what it means.

I hope the colonel hasn't been very drastic.

However, everything seems right; in fact, better than I hoped." In this more cheerful frame of mind I arose, breakfasted at leisure, and set out for the bank about eleven.
Of course, the first person I met in the street was one of the last I wanted to meet, namely, Donna Antonia.

She was on horseback, and her horse looked as if he'd done some work.