WEDDED Next day, oh! joy of joys, Barbara and Anthony met once more after some fifteen months of separation.

Anthony was now in his twenty-fourth year, a fine young man with well-cut features, brown eyes and a pleasant smile.

Muscularly, too, he was very strong, as was shown by his athletic record at Cambridge.

Whether his strength extended to his constitution was another matter.

Mrs.Walrond, noticing his unvarying colour, which she thought unduly high, and the transparent character of his skin, spoke to her husband upon the matter.
In his turn Septimus spoke to the old local doctor, who shrugged his shoulders and remarked that the Arnotts had been delicate for generations, "lungy," he called it.