Of what nature I can, of course, form no idea.

He was little more than twenty when he came out here, so I should say that it was hardly a love affair." "That is always the way, Hunter.

If a man goes his own way, and that way does not happen to be the way of the mess, it is supposed that he must have had trouble of some sort.

As Bathurst is the son of a distinguished soldier, and is now the owner of a fine property at home, I don't see what trouble he can have had.

He may possibly, for anything I know, have had some boyish love affairs, but I don't think he is the sort of man to allow his whole life to be affected by any foolery of that sort.