"What do you mean by early ?" "Well, we do doubtless get up later than at Beccles; but that gives us, you see, shorter days.

I mean in a couple of seasons.

Soon enough," Vanderbank developed, "to limit the strain--!" He was moved to higher gaiety by his friend's expression.
"What do you mean by the strain ?" "Well, the complication of her being there." "Being where ?" "You do put one through!" Vanderbank laughed.

But he showed himself perfectly prepared.

"Out of the school-room and where she is now.