In the afternoon I'll look up one or two people." "Don't count on finding too many of your old set," said Cicely rather hurriedly.

"I dare say some of them will find their way back some time, but at present there's been rather an exodus." "The Bredes," said Yeovil, "are they here ?" "No, the Bredes are in Scotland, at their place in Sutherlandshire; they don't come south now, and the Ricardes are farming somewhere in East Africa, the whole lot of them.

Valham has got an appointment of some sort in the Straits Settlement, and has taken his family with him.

The Collards are down at their mother's place in Norfolk; a German banker has bought their house in Manchester Square." "And the Hebways ?" asked Yeovil.
"Dick Hebway is in India," said Cicely, "but his mother lives in Paris; poor Hugo, you know, was killed in the war.

My friends the Allinsons are in Paris too.