By Jove, I don't think I could have spent the Long here, with you in South Africa! What ever possessed you to go and marry a Boer, Nan ?" "Don't be an idiot!" said Nan sharply.

"He isn't anything of the sort." Jerry accepted the correction with a boyish grimace.
"I'm coming to call on you to-morrow, Mrs.Cradock," he announced.
Nan coloured angrily.
"You needn't trouble yourself," she returned.

"I don't receive callers." But Jerry was not to be shaken off.

He linked an affectionate arm in hers.
"All right, Nan old girl, don't be waxy," he pleaded.

"Come on the lake with me this afternoon instead.