"There were three sons.

Mrs.Hope hardly ever talks about them, but I've seen their photographs, and of course I have often been told about them--by Great-aunt Alison, and others--and heard how they died.

They were very clever and good-looking and well-liked--the kind of sons mothers are very proud of, and they all died imperially, if that is an expression to use.

Two died in India, one--a soldier--in one of the Frontier skirmishes: the other--an I.C.S.
man--from over-working in a famine-stricken district.

The youngest fell in the Boer War ...