Lady Granet was an Alsatian.

He was to have gone out with the polo team, you know, to America, but broke a rib just as they were making the selection.

He played cricket for Middlesex once or twice, too and he was Captain of Oxford the year that they did so well." "An Admirable Crichton," Major Thomson murmured.
"In sport, at any rate," his neighbour assented.

"He has always been one of the most popular young men about town, but of course the women will spoil him now." "Is it my fancy," he asked, "or was he not reported a prisoner ?" "He was missing twice, once for over a week," Mrs.Cunningham replied.
"There are all sorts of stories as to how he got back to the lines.

A perfect young dare-devil, I should think.