All this trouble has come through Dick.

I mean," she recovered, "that all my troubles began with this affair of Dick's.

And now there is Ned under arrest and to be court-martialled." "But what has Captain Tremayne to do with Dick ?" "Nothing, of course," her ladyship agreed, with more than usual self-restraint.

"But it's one trouble on another.

Oh, it's more than I can bear." "I know, my dear, I know," Miss Armytage said soothingly, and her own voice was not so steady.
"You don't know! How can you?
It isn't your brother or your friend.