He was looking tired that morning.

There were weary lines about his eyes.

"I don't know why you should be so very penitent, Miss Bathurst," he said.

"It was quite a small thing." "It got me into bad trouble anyway," said Dinah.

"I've had a tremendous wigging from the Colonel this morning, and if--if I ever do anything so bad again, we're to be sent home." "I call that unreasonable," said Scott with decision.