23/38 "The ladies charge me," he said pleasantly, "with more messages of sympathy and hopes for your recovery than I can remember. Miss Dandridge vows that you have supplanted in her affections the hero of her favourite romance. It is a dangerous place." "I was not attentive," said Rand, "and my horse is a masterful brute. I am under deep obligation to all at Fontenoy." "It is a kindly place," said Cary simply. |