He must find out how he could have escaped from the Boers and come back to England without getting into difficulties with the military or the Colonial Office or whoever had any kind of control over the members of the Bechuanaland Border Police....
But the whole South African episode had better be dropped.

Rossiter, after his appeal, would set himself to forget and ignore it.

It must be damped down in the poor old father's mind as of relative unimportance--after all, his father was a recluse who did not have many visitors ...

by the bye, he must remember to write on the morrow and explain why he could not come down for Christmas or the New Year ...

would promise a good long visit in the Easter holidays instead--Must remember that resolution to learn up some Welsh.