"This is his first day out." "Ah! but he is wounded, perhaps ?" Madame Selarne inquired solicitously.
"In the left arm and the right leg," Lady Anselman assented.

"I believe that he has seen some terrible fighting, and we are very proud of his D.
S.O.The only trouble is that he is like all the others--he will tell us nothing." "He shows excellent judgment," Lord Romsey observed.
Lady Anselman glanced at her august guest a little querulously.
"That is the principle you go on, nowadays, isn't it ?" she remarked.

"I am not sure that you are wise.

When one is told nothing, one fears the worst, and when time after time the news of these small disasters reaches us piecemeal, about three weeks late, we never get rid of our forebodings, even when you tell us about victories....

Ah! Here he comes at last," she added, holding out both her hands to the young man who was making his somewhat difficult way towards them.