"I hate these Army Medicals, anyway." "Major Thomson has a charming disposition," Lady Conyers declared warmly.

"Besides, he will be very well off some day--he may even get the baronetcy." "Who cares about that ?" her husband grunted.

"Geraldine has all the family she needs, and all the money.

How she came to choose Thomson from all her sweethearts, I can't imagine." Geraldine, notwithstanding her fatigue, welcomed her lover very charmingly when he arrived, a few minutes later.

Major Thomson was still in travelling clothes, and had the air of a man who had been working at high pressure for some time.