I found I was playing with fire, and was fortunate in getting off without singeing my wings, which is more than a good many others would have done." "He must be a horrid sort of man," Isobel said indignantly.
Mrs.Doolan laughed.

"I don't think you will find him so; certainly that is not the general opinion of women.

However, you will see him for yourself in a very few minutes." Isobel looked up with some curiosity when Captain Forster was announced, and at once admitted to herself that the Doctor's report as to his personal appearance was fully justified.

He stood over six feet high, with a powerful frame, and an easy careless bearing; his hair was cut rather close, he wore a long tawny mustache, his eyes were dark, his teeth very white and perfect.

A momentary look of surprise came across his face as his eyes fell on Isobel.
"I had hardly expected," he said, as the Major introduced him to her, "to find no less than three unmarried ladies at Deennugghur.