MRS.

LAWRENCE'S HOSPITALITY "_An Officer's Widow offers hospitality to students and professional women.

Excellent cuisine; man-servant; moderate terms.

Apply: Mrs.L., 24 Brutton Square, N.W._" So ran the advertisement which Mrs.Lawrence periodically inserted in one of the leading London dailies.

She was well-pleased with the wording of it, considering that it combined both veracity and attractiveness--two things which do not invariably run smoothly in conjunction with each other.
The opening phrase had reference to the fact that her husband, the defunct major, had been an army doctor, and the word hospitality pleasantly suggested the idea of a home from home, whilst the afterthought conveyed by the moderate terms delicately indicated that the hospitality was not entirely of a gratuitous nature.