Charles Cassilis Vere got an appointment on the same day in the Rhodesian Mounted Police, didn't he ?" Which was in point of fact quite accurate.
But I am forgetting that all this time I have not even now introduced my witch to you.
Hilda Wade, when I first saw her, was one of the prettiest, cheeriest, and most graceful girls I have ever met--a dusky blonde, brown-eyed, brown-haired, with a creamy, waxen whiteness of skin that was yet warm and peach-downy.

And I wish to insist from the outset upon the plain fact that there was nothing uncanny about her.

In spite of her singular faculty of insight, which sometimes seemed to illogical people almost weird or eerie, she was in the main a bright, well-educated, sensible, winsome, lawn-tennis-playing English girl.

Her vivacious spirits rose superior to her surroundings, which were often sad enough.

But she was above all things wholesome, unaffected, and sparkling--a gleam of sunshine.