"One is naturally interested in soldiers, however." "You must have met thousands like him," she remarked,--"good-looking, very British, keen sportsman, lots of pluck, just a little careless, hating to talk about himself and serious things.

I have known him since he was a boy." Major Thomson continued to be gravely interested.
"Granet!" he said to himself thoughtfully, "Do I know any of his people, I wonder ?" "You know some of his connections, of course," Mrs.Cunningham replied briskly.

"Sir Alfred Anselman, for instance, his uncle." "His father and mother ?" "They are both dead.

There is a large family place in Warwickshire, and a chateau, just now, I am afraid, in the hands of the Germans.

It was somewhere quite close to the frontier.