"No; we are nothing to one another," she answered--which was only true formally.

"Dr.Cumberledge had a post at the same hospital in London where I was a nurse; and he thought he would like to try Rhodesia.

That is all." Mrs.Klaas gazed from one to other of us suspiciously.

"You English are strange!" she answered, with a complacent little shrug.

"But there--from Europe! Your ways, we know, are different." Hilda did not attempt to explain.