"I am glad everybody finds my little daughter so admirable in the field." "Beyond comparison in the field and everywhere," said Hamil, with a cordiality so laboriously frank that Mrs.Cardross raised her eyes--an instant only--then continued sorting the skeins of silk in her voluminous lap.
Shiela appeared in sight among the roses across the lawn; and, as Mr.
Cardross came out on the terrace to light his after-breakfast cigar, Hamil disappeared in the direction of the garden where Shiela now stood under the bougainvillia, leisurely biting into a sapodilla.
Mrs.Cardross nodded to her white-linen-clad husband, who looked very handsome with the silvered hair at his temples accentuating the clear, deep tan of his face.
"You are burnt, Neville.

Did you and the children have a good time ?" "A good time! Well, just about the best in my life--except when I'm with you.

Too bad you couldn't have been there.

Shiela shoots like a demon.
You ought to have seen her among the quail, and later, in the saw-grass, pulling down mallard and duskies from the sky-high overhead range! I tell you, Amy, she's the cleverest, sweetest, cleanest sportsman I ever saw afield.

Gray, of course, stopped his birds very well.