"I remember him perfectly well because he kept his temper when I revoked." "Dear me!" she exclaimed.

"He must have taken a fancy to you, then.

As a rule, they rather complain about him at bridge." "I formed the impression," Lessingham continued, "that he was rather a better player than the majority of the performers there." Mrs.Johnson, who was a dark and somewhat forbidding-looking lady, smiled.
"He thinks so, at any rate," she conceded.

"Didn't he tell me that you were invalided home from the front ?" Lessingham shook his head.
"I am quite sure that it was not mentioned," he said.

"We walked home together as far as the hotel one evening, but we spoke only of the golf and some shooting in the neighbourhood." Philippa, who had been maneuvering to attract Lessingham's attention, suddenly dropped the cake basket which she was passing.