"I have got a couple of hours' work in the orderly-room.

Rumzan, don't let my niece be disturbed, but if she wakes and rings the bell send up a message by the woman that I-shall not be back until four." The Major walked across to the orderly room, while the rest, mounting their buggies, drove to the mess-house, which was a quarter of a mile away.
"I should think Miss Hannay will prove a valuable addition to our circle, Doctor," the Adjutant said.

"I don't know why, but I gathered from what the Major said that his niece was very young.

He spoke of her as if she were quite a child." "She is a very nice, sensible young woman," the Doctor said; "clever and bright, and, as you can see for your-selves, pretty, and yet no nonsense about her.

I only hope that she won't get spoilt here; nineteen out of twenty young women do get spoilt within six months of their arrival in India, but I think she will be one of the exceptions." "I should have liked to have seen the Doctor doing chaperon," Captain Doolan laughed; "he would have been a brave man who would have attempted even the faintest flirtation with anyone under his charge." "That is your opinion, is it, Doolan ?" the Doctor said sharply.