CHAPTER 2.
Frank Mallet, after he had visited all his tenants, drove to Sir John Greendale's.
"We have got the route," he said, as he entered; "and I leave this evening.

I had a note from the Adjutant this morning saying that will be soon enough, so you see I have time to come over and say goodbye comfortably." "I do not think goodbyes are ever comfortable," Lady Greendale said.

"One may get through some more comfortably than others, but that is all that can be said for the best of them." "I call them hateful," Bertha put in.

"Downright hateful, Captain Mallett--especially when anyone is going away to fight." "They are not pleasant, I admit," Frank Mallett agreed; "and I ought to have said as comfortably as may be.

I think perhaps those who go feel it less than those who stay.