CHAPTER VII.
"I wonder why you don't like Captain Granet ?" Geraldine asked her fiance, as they stood in the drawing-room waiting for dinner.
"Not like him ?" Thomson repeated.

"Have I really given you that impression, Geraldine ?" The girl nodded.
"Perhaps I ought not to say that, though," she confessed.

"You are never particularly enthusiastic about people, are you ?" One of his rare smiles transfigured his face.

He leaned a little towards her.
"Not about many people, Geraldine," he whispered.
She made a charming little grimace but a moment afterwards she was serious again.
"But really," she continued, "to me Captain Granet seems just the type of young Englishman who is going to save the country.

He is a keen soldier, clever, modest, and a wonderful sportsman.