Don't you know that your country is engaged in the greatest conflict in history?
A hundred pounds ...

you might have put it in the War Loan." "Yes," said the Stranger, "I did.

That's how I squandered it." Miss Ford seemed to be partially drowned by this reply.

One could see her wits fighting for air.
But Lady Arabel had not committed herself, and therefore escaped this disaster.

"You behaved foolishly," she said.