I have never denied it.' Mrs.Willoughby did not display her usual alacrity to engage in the oft-repeated combat as to Miss Le Mesurier's merits.

Her face grew serious again.
'Does Clarice care for him, you think ?' Fielding was admiring Mrs.Willoughby's eyes at the moment, and answered absently.

'Conway, you mean ?' 'No, no! How wilfully irritating you are! This Mr.Drake, of course.

By the way, I suppose he will get on ?' She spoke in a voice which implied regret for the supposition, and almost appealed for a denial of it.
'I should think there's no doubt of it.

They tell me he has just sent a force up country in Matanga to locate concessions.