Snatches of half an hour seem all I require.

It is convenient when one has a vast amount of work to get through in a short space of time." "Very convenient.

Just the reverse of the sleeping sickness." "Rather! I was never fitter in my life--as I told Dick Cameron." Aubrey Treherne glanced at the bright burning eyes and flushed face--the feverish blood showing, even through the tan of Africa.
"Yes, you look jolly fit," he said.

"Who is Dick Cameron ?" "A great chum of mine.

We met, as boys in Edinburgh, and were at school together.