31/65 Hugo Le Geyt, with his frank boyish nature, his great Devonian frame, is sure to have done so. He has made for the West Country!" "You are, right, Hilda," Mrs.Mallet exclaimed, with conviction. "I'm quite sure, from what I know of Hugo, that to go to the West would be his first impulse." "And the Le Geyts are always governed by first impulses," my character-reader added. From the time we two were at Oxford together--I as an undergraduate, he as a don--I had always noticed that marked trait in my dear old friend's temperament. |