Then her quick Scotch mind fastened on the one unfamiliar word.

"Why _Major_ Radmore ?" she asked.
Timmy looked a little confused.

"I--I don't know," he muttered unwillingly.

"I thought he was a soldier, Mum." "Of course he _was_ a soldier.

But he isn't a soldier now." "Isn't it tea-time ?" asked Timmy suddenly.
"Yes, I suppose it is." As they walked towards the house together Janet was telling herself uneasily that unless Timmy had met Dr.O'Farrell, it was impossible for him to have learnt through any ordinary human agency that Godfrey Radmore was coming to Beechfield.