I had been exposed for hours to the weather--I was wet to the skin.

The clothes marked 'Mercy Merrick' were the clothes lent to me by Mercy Merrick herself while my own things were drying.

I was struck by the shell in those clothes.

I was carried away insensible in those clothes after the operation had been performed on me." Lady Janet listened to perfection--and did no more.

She turned confidentially to Horace, and said to him, in her gracefully ironical way: "She is ready with her explanation." Horace answered in the same tone: "A great deal too ready." Grace looked from one of them to the other.