"Helen, you especially! You never heard anything so wonderful in your life! They weren't fishing excursions at all.

There weren't any whiting.

Henry was laying mines all the time, and he's blown up half the German fleet! It's all in the Times this morning.

He's got a D.S.O .-- Henry has--and he's a Rear-Admiral! Oh, Helen, I want to cry!" The two women wandered into a far corner of the room.

Richard wrung his brother-in-law's hand.
"Philippa isn't exactly coherent," he remarked, "but it sounds all right." "You see," Sir Henry explained, "I've been mine laying ever since the war started.