"Ameerah is not more faithful than you, I'm very sure." "Oh, my lady!" ejaculated Jane, turning red with pleasure.

"I do hope not.

I shouldn't like to think she could be." In fact the tropic suggestion of the Ayah's personality had warmed the imagination of the servants' hall, and there had been much talk of many things, of the Osborns as well as of their servants, and thrilling stories of East Indian life had been related by Walderhurst's man, who was a travelled person.

Captain Osborn had good sport on these days, and sport was the thing he best loved.

He was of the breed of man who can fish, hunt, or shoot all day, eat robust meals and sleep heavily all night; who can do this every day of a year, and in so doing reach his highest point of desire in existence.