Do come if you can and bring your friend with you, if he is in London and has nothing better to do.

We have all been reading about him in the papers, and Chichester is very proud of belonging to the same mess, and says what a wonderful thing it must be to be able to get into the papers like that, without trying to._" Hillyard could see the smile upon Lady Splay's face as she wrote that sentence.

Hillyard laughed as he read it but it was less in amusement as from pleasure at the particular information which this sentence contained.

Harry Luttrell had clearly won a special distinction in the hard fighting at Thiepval.

There was not a word in Harry's letter to suggest it.