"You may think what you like of me for saying so to a comparative stranger; but I won't have your sympathy on false pretences, simply because Major Lascelles is dead.

Did you ever meet him, by the way ?" And she mentioned an Indian regiment.

But the major and I had never met.
"Well, it was not very happy for either of us.

I suppose such marriages never are.

I know they are never supposed to be.