There is no reason why we should bring the hotel proprietors and shopkeepers to the brink of ruin because we are all feeling more or less miserable." "Quite right," her neighbour, Colonel Grey, assented.

"I am sure it wouldn't do us any good out there to feel that you were all sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Besides, think how pleasant this is to come home to," he added, looking around the little table.

"Jove! What a good-looking girl Miss Conyers is!" Lady Anselman nodded and lowered her voice a little.
"She has just broken her engagement to Surgeon-Major Thomson.

I wonder whether you know him ?" "Inspector of Field Hospitals or something, isn't he ?" the other remarked carelessly.