I came home before the last war, and I met Lady Angela.

I am so little of a woman's man that I suppose the girl whom I thought of at all became like an angel, a creature altogether apart from that sex of whom I know so little.

However that may be, she was the second woman to hold any place in my--heart--as she most surely will be the last.

Then the war broke out, luck came my way, and I returned with a greater reputation than I deserved.

The very night of my return I asked Lady Angela to marry me, and she consented." He puffed vigorously at his pipe, but he seemed wholly ignorant of the fact that it was out.